Everything is chemistry
At the cellular and molecular level, biochemistry is the application of chemistry to the study of biological processes. Around the turn of the 20th century, it developed as a distinct discipline when scientists combined chemistry, physiology, and biology to study the chemistry of living systems.
It investigates the chemistry of living organisms and the molecular basis for the changes occurring in living cells. Biochemistry is both life science and chemical science. It uses chemistry, physics, molecular biology, and immunology techniques to research the structure and actions of complex molecules contained in biological material, and how they interact to shape cells, tissues, and whole organisms.
For example, biochemists are interested in brain function mechanisms, cell multiplication and differentiation, communication between and within cells and organs, and the chemical bases of inheritance and disease. In such methods, the biochemist tries to decide how various molecules such as proteins, nucleic acids, lipids, vitamins, and hormones function. The control of chemical reactions in living cells is given special importance.
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