University is a time where you meet lots of new people. Being in a new city and getting involved in a new community. You get asked the three questions a zillion times:
1)What's your name?
2)Where are you from?
3)What are you studying?
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| A tip for you all! |
Okay so I study biochemistry. But I thought I'd give an insight into how diverse a subject it is.
Biochemistry is not quite a fusion of your biology and chemistry lessons you might've had at school
It is much more than that!
Biochemistry is at the heart of many areas of the life sciences such as genetics, cell biology, energy and metabolism, plant biology and development of disease.
Lubert Stryer, the famous biochemist and author of Biochemistry (W.H. Freeman & Co.), states that biochemistry is “rapidly progressing from a science performed almost entirely at the laboratory bench to one that may be explored through computers. Its practical approach applies the molecular aspects of chemistry to the vast variety of biological systems."
The thing I love about studying biochemistry is taking a 'simple' cell and finding out the intricate mechanisms that enable that cell to function. For example protein synthesis: DNA is transcribed into messenger RNA (ribonucleic acid, a molecule similar to a single strand of DNA). The code of bases that the mRNA contains is transcribed by ribosomes into a chain of amino acids joined by peptide bonds a.k.a a protein.
That may sound simple summarised in just a few short sentences.But it's far from it! And that is only one example!
Molecular biology shows that there is to life that meets the eye which makes me feel privileged to be studying biochemistry.
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It is much more than that!
Biochemistry is at the heart of many areas of the life sciences such as genetics, cell biology, energy and metabolism, plant biology and development of disease.
Lubert Stryer, the famous biochemist and author of Biochemistry (W.H. Freeman & Co.), states that biochemistry is “rapidly progressing from a science performed almost entirely at the laboratory bench to one that may be explored through computers. Its practical approach applies the molecular aspects of chemistry to the vast variety of biological systems."
The thing I love about studying biochemistry is taking a 'simple' cell and finding out the intricate mechanisms that enable that cell to function. For example protein synthesis: DNA is transcribed into messenger RNA (ribonucleic acid, a molecule similar to a single strand of DNA). The code of bases that the mRNA contains is transcribed by ribosomes into a chain of amino acids joined by peptide bonds a.k.a a protein.
That may sound simple summarised in just a few short sentences.But it's far from it! And that is only one example!
Molecular biology shows that there is to life that meets the eye which makes me feel privileged to be studying biochemistry.
Upcoming posts
Sugar and sweetners-What's the difference?
