Task 1:Self-Reflection of Introduction to Biochemistry.

Biochemistry can be defined as the discipline that uses the principles and languages of chemistry to explain biology. In another words, both biology and chemistry are dependant to each other when biochemistry-related topics were discussed especially when it comes to organic chemistry since both fields involves specific mechanism under specific reation. However, organic chemists usually settle and handle the reaction by conducting experiments in the laboratory. On the other hand, biochemists are the one responsible in analysing and comprehending the synthesis of the reaction or how the reaction takes place.


The major emphasis that is needed to be taken into account is the correlation and perfect synergy between those two fields in which leads to numerous breakthrough and top-notch, world-wide recognised achievements, and they are namely the development of vaccines throughout the century, the existence of anti-viral medicines , the discovery of the roles of enzymes as catalysts and other countless of them will make their debut to the world of biochemistry in the future.


Biochemistry is a powerful component of biology that mainly describes the structure, organization, and function of living organisms in molecular terms where the details of each components are accurately presented which helps students to understand the overall view and concept of any related topics in a clear manner. This aspect particularly will help us to achieve our first course learning outcome that is to outline the fundamental biochemical principles such as the structure and function of biomolecules. Biochemistry constitutes three major areas of studies. Firstly, the area of study focuses on conformational study in which explains the thee-dimensional arrangements of biomolecules. Secondly, the metabolism study which displays the biochemical pathways such as Kreb cycle and production of energy such as glycolysis. Thirdly and also the last one is informational study in which involves the language for communication inside and between the cells such as the signal transduction.


Other than that, I manage to memorise all the important non-metallic elements which plays a vital role that act as the backbone of the biomolecules. They are arranged in a way that helps me and the others to memorise easily, it is arranged as CHNOPS and constitutes more than 97% of the weight of most organisms. They act as the backbone of the biomolecules due to the capability of forming strong covalent bond.

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