Biochemistry


 

Biochemistry is the remarkable properties of living organism arises from the thousands of different lifeless biomolecules.When these molecules are isolated and examined individually, they confirm to all the physical and chemical laws that describe the behavior of matter.

 

The study of biochemistry define that the how to collection of inanimate molecules that constitute living organisms interact to maintain and immortal life animated solely by the physical and chemical laws that govern the nonliving universe. Biochemistry is concerned with the study of the chemical processes that occur in living organism, with the ultimate aim of understanding cell function in molecular terms. Biochemistry is the study of the structure and function of cellular components, macro and micro molecules such as proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, nucleic acids, and other biomolecules.

 

In the early 1900s, investigators in Europe and America sought to unite the diverse fields dealing with the chemistry of life under name of "biochemistry" or "biological chemistry" (then the preferred term in the United States). Among the first journals expressing this aim was the Journal of Biological Chemistry, founded in the United States in 1905. The American Society of Biological Chemists was constituted in 1906. In the same decade, many American medical schools, newly under university control, began to teach biochemistry as part of a nationwide reorganization of preclinical education. By 1920, most American medical schools had established departments of biochemistry where research had a predominantly clinical orientation

 

Biochemistry has also efficient for the study on the chemistry of enzyme-catalyzed reactions, and the properties, structure & function of proteins.. Other areas of biochemistry include the genetic code (DNA, RNA), protein synthesis, cell membrane transport, and signal transduction, chemicals involve in recombinant DNA technology, immunochemical techniques and also in chromatographic techniques.