Have you ever thought about things that we eat? Why do we eat? What is the fate of the food we eat? Biochemistry can help us understand this. The food we eat consists of many biomolecules. Those biomolecules have different and important properties and characteristics. Biochemistry helps us to understand how those biomolecules are built, ...
First of all, biochemistry gives point of view for every phenomenon in life. The object of biochemistry is life itself. As a consequence, biochemistry can be used in almost every aspect and field in life. We have previously discussed how pharmaceutical industry, food industry, and clinical pathology make use of the biochemistry point of view. Second, ...
One of the main topics in biochemistry is biomolecules. Among the most important biomolecules are carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and amino acids. We have previously discussed carbohydrates, and now we are going to discuss lipids, and how biochemistry makes us view the importance of lipids. Lipid is a term to describe and group chemical compounds insoluble in ...
Sciences need language to convey the meanings in order to put the idea on the same level, and also to make people understand. Biochemistry is also the same. Biochemistry needs linguistics symbolism to make the understanding more easily understood. Biochemistry uses mostly Latin. The reason is that this language is already dead, so it won't ...
Several previous posts discussed about how living beings cultivate energy here and here. In order to undergo this process of biochemistry, mitochondria is a very important part. Brief introduction to mitochondria has already been presented, now we are going to continue. Mitochondria also contains a DNA, called mitochondrial DNA. Apparently the proteins encoded from this DNA, ...