Biochemistry Prelims

Biochemistry

chemistry of life processes and a study of life at the molecular level

structural and functional biochemistry

focuses on chemical structures and the 3D arrangements of biomolecules

informational biochemistry

area that defines the language for storing data and for transmitting that data in cells and organisms

Bioenergetics

• study of metabolism

• also describes the flow of energy in living organisms and how it may be transferred

4th century B.C. :Chinese

• Human has 5 elements: water, fire, wood, metal, and earth

• When all elements are present in balance, this results to good health

• While an imbalance in elements causes illness

428-348 B.C.: Early Greeks

• including Plato explained the body in terms of cosmological theories

• Diet is important for treatment of diseases

pepsis

The word digestion is ___ in greek which means inner heat, and is the origin of the word pepsin, a digestive enzyme.

1800s- Fredrich Wohler

Demonstrate that urea (a compound that had been associated with living cells) could be synthesized from an inorganic compound outside of the cell

1903- Carl Neuberg

Defined Biochemistry as the Chemistry of Life

Lab Synthesis of Urea

Wöhler

Cell theory

Schwann

James Watson and Francis Crick

Described DNA double helix

Description of citric acid cycle

Krebs

Polymers

has a large number of repeating units bonded together

Jin walks inside a dim building on a sunny day. Once inside, his eyes dilate to allow more light into his eyes. What attribute of life does this represent?

Respond to stimuli

In the different stages of a pea plant, which characteristics of living things is represented?

Growth and development