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This is the study of the chemical substances found in living organisms and the chemical interactions of these substances with each other
Biochemistry
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Application of chemistry to the study of biological processes at the cellular and molecular level.
Biochemistry
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Distinct principle around the beginning of the 20th century when scientists combined chemistry, physiology, and biology to investigate the chemistry of living systems by: studying the structure and behavior of the complex molecules found in biological material. Ways these molecules interact to form cells, tissues, and whole organisms.
Biochemistry
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lysis: breakdown/catabolism
Glycolisis
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Glycogen is a
Polysaccharide
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Glycogen will undergo glycolysis to produce
Glucose (source of ATP)
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building of glucose
Glycogenesis
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Glucose will produce glycogen that will then be stored
Glycogenesis
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Discovered by Friedrich Wohler
Urea
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a waste productrine
Urea
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Enzyme of Urea
Urease
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Discovered the first enzyme
Anselme Payen
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What is the first enzyme
Amylase
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Amylase has 2 types, what are those?
Alpha (mouth) and Beta (intestine)
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Pasteurization of milk
Louise Pasteur
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discovered fermentation
Edward Bucher
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introduced the Lock and Key model
Emil Fischer
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Discovered something about the DNA
Oswald Avery
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Krebs cycle founder
Hans Krebs
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Basic building of life and the smallest living unit of an organisms
Cell
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They grow, reproduce, use energy, adapt, respond to their environment and many cannot be seen with the naked eye
Cell
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it may be an entire organism or it may be one of billions of cells that make up the organisms
Cell
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States that the bodies of plants and animals are composed of cells and their products and these cells came from pre-existing cell
Cell Theory
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First observed and identifies cell in 1665
Robert Hooke
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Cell is composed of
Water - 70 to 75 % , Organic Material - 25-30 % , Protein - 10- 20 %
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CHO
Carbohydrates
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CHON
Proteins
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CHONP
Nucleic Acid
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Are simpler than eukaryotic ones and found only in the domains of bacteria and Archaea
Prokayotes
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They lack nucleus or membrane bound structures called organelles
Prokaryotes
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False nucleus
Nucleoid
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