Tuesday, January 26, 2010

What is biochemistry and how does it differ from the fields of genetics, biology, and molecular bilogy?

Biochemistry is mediated as the study of chemical processes with in a living organism. In biochemistry we deal with more of a cellular based structure of learning. With in our Biochemistry class, we have already discussed amino acids, proteins, enzymes (and their mechanisms), lipids, as well as future studies in cellular respiration (glycolysis, citric acid cycle, electron transport chain), metabolism and even transcription/translation in genetics.

Biochemistry is different from the field of genetics, biology, chemistry and molecular biology by the fact that it is dealing with these chemical processes, not the physical. It does touch (some what) in each subject lightly but stays with in a set bracket of guidelines. This is because all science is connected.