Exploring Biochemistry: The Chemistry of Life

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Jamie Raughton
Mr. Keeland
Chemistry Honors
10/27/17
Biochemistry: Chemistry
Biochemistry is the study of the chemistry that takes place in living organisms, especially the structure and function of their chemical components, such as proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, nucleus acids, and small molecules present in cells. Biochemistry can be classified into 4 major categories carbohydrates, lipids, proteins and amino acid, and nucleic acids. There are so many jobs available in the field of biochemistry for example hospitals, universities, agriculture, food institute, education, cosmetics, forensic crime research, drug discovery and development. Biochemists provide new ideas and experiments to help us better understand how life works, support our …show more content…

The first area is the structural chemistry of the components of living matter and the relationships of biological function to chemical structure. The second area is the metabolism which is the total chemical reactions that occur in living matter. The third is the chemistry of processes and substances that store and transmit biological information. Biochemistry is having a bigger influence in the field of medicine. The molecular mechanisms of many diseases have been elucidated. Assays of enzyme activity are today indispensable in clinical diagnosis. For example, liver disease is routinely diagnosed and monitored by measurements of blood levels of enzymes. DNA probes enable the detection of some genetic disorders, infectious diseases, and cancers. Genetically engineered strains of bacteria containing recombinant DNA are producing valuable proteins such as human insulin and growth hormone. Biochemistry is also a fundamentally important part of drug design. Biochemists have Identified and sequenced genes responsible for causing diseases, and genetic cloning technology has led to remarkable progress in understanding the relationships of genes and proteins. The molecular bases of several diseases and numerous inborn errors of metabolism are now known. Biochemists investigates the relationship between molecular structure and function of living things at a molecular level. This has led to the integration of molecular genetics and protein

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