Name KEY Date HOMEWORK PACKET UNIT 1C: Basic Biochemistry Part 1. As polysaccharide is to _starch, glycogen, cellulose_(3 possible answers) 7. BASIC BIOCHEMISTRY WEBQUEST. General Webquest Directions: Open a word document, put your name, date and period at the top, then cut/paste each topic heading followed by the question. Find the answers by visiting the links found directly following the questions and reading ALL of the information based on these four.
Biochemistry is one of the crossover fields of chemistry. Biochemists have to understand both the living world and the chemical world. Even if you don’t want to become a biochemist, you'll still have to understand and molecules as a biologist. You'll also have to know about; a much bigger area of chemistry. The key thing to remember is that biochemistry is the chemistry of the living world. Plants, animals, and single-celled organisms all use the same basic chemical to live their lives.
Biochemistry is not about the cells or the organisms. It's about the smallest parts of those organisms, the molecules. It's also about the cycles that create those biological compounds. Repeating Biochemical Cycles. You can probably guess that biochemical repeat over and over. Those cycles allow living creatures to survive on Earth. It could be the constant process of photosynthesis that creates in plants or building complex proteins in the cells of your body.
Also, cycles rely on and other to move the atoms and molecules. Understanding the helper molecules is as important as learning about the cycles themselves. Every cycle has a place, and each one is just a small piece that helps an organism survive. In each cycle, molecules are used as reactants and then transformed into products. Life is one big network of activity where each piece relies on all of the others. A compound, such as an herbicide, may only break one part of one cycle in a plant. However, because everything needs to work together, the whole plant eventually dies.
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Look at the way chemical compounds affect living things and the world around you. Start with the Basics We may have been talking about cycles to this point. However, we think it's important that you understand the different types of molecules you will find in biochemistry. We aren't going to go into the citric acid cycle and its ten steps. We won't even look at the eleven steps involved in the breakdown of glucose. At your level of understanding, it's enough to know the difference between a, an, and a carbohydrate. There will be plenty of time for you to memorize the pathways and the movement of molecules during each step of a cycle.