BCH 101
Introduction
Fall 2003

What is biochemistry about?

Biology?
http://research.amnh.org/biodiversity/center/what.html

Chemistry?
http://teachingtreasures.com.au/science-projects/periodic_table.htm

Organic Chemistry?

Some thing to do with molecules that have hydrocarbon back bones, but not only or not all of those.

Small molecules?
http://metallo.scripps.edu/pres2/show.php/mdb_api_oscon2002/3


Macromolecules?
http://www.fullereneinternational.com/fullerenes.asp
well, organic macromolecules....

Macromolecules with biological functions such as enzymes?
http://www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/farabee/BIOBK/BioBookEnzym.html
http://www.bio.miami.edu/tom/bil255/bil255goods/05_enzymes.html (Maud Menton)

Nucleic Acids?
http://www.dnalc.org/

Interactions of macromolecules such as in metabolic pathways?
http://www.science.gmu.edu/~jmirick/csi803/gita.htm

Physiology? Biochemical Adaptation?
http://www-marine.stanford.edu/HMSweb/images/biochemical.jpg


Wait a minute.....aren't we back to whole organisms again ?

Is biochemstry really been about rats in blenders all along? http://members.lycos.co.uk/ukowns/b3ta-blender.jpg

What about:

Analytical methods? http://ww2.mcgill.ca/biology/undergra/c200a/sec1-9.htm

Genomics?

Biophysics?

Biochemical Informatics?

Biotechnology and drug design?