Tuesday, February 16, 2010

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

Biochemistry is the study of chemical processes in living organisms. It studies the structure and function of proteins, lipids, nucleic acids and carbohydrates. Biochemistry is an accumulation of the fields of biology, chemistry, genetics and molecular biology.

Genetics is the biological study of heredity and variation in living organisms. This discipline deals with the study of nucleic acids. Biology is a broad study of life that contains many subdivisions including structure, function, evolution and origin. Chemistry is the study of the composition, structure and properties of matter and how molecules change through chemical reactions. The field of molecular biology studies macromolecules and macromolecular mechanisms found in living things. Biochemistry takes pieces of each discipline to form its very own subject.

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