Chemistry

• Biochemistry


  Chemistry of Living beings or Chemical Basis of Life
• Life in Biochemistry


  • Hundreds of Biochemical reactions and Biochemical processes
• Biochemistry


  A branch of life science that deals with the Study of Biochemical Reactions
• Branches of Biochemistry


  • Medical Biochemistry
  • Clinical Biochemistry
  • Bacterial Biochemistry
  • Plant Biochemistry
  • Animal Biochemistry
  • Industrial Biochemistry
• Medical Biochemistry


  Deals with chemical basis of human body
• Clinical Biochemistry


  Deals with clinical diseases/pathological conditions of human body
• Clinical Biochemistry


  • Supports diagnosis, therapy and research of medical field
• Biochemistry emerged


  Late 18th and early 19th century
• Term 'Biochemistry'


  First introduced by the German Chemist Carl Neuberg in 1903
• Pioneer Workers and their Discoveries/Works

  • Berzilus - Enzymes Catalysis
  • Edward Buchner - Enzyme Extraction
  • Louis Pasteur - Fermentation Process
  • Lohmann - Role of Creatine PO4 in muscles
  • Hans Kreb - TCA Cycle
  • Banting and Macleod - Insulin
  • Fiske and Subbarow - Role of ATPs
  • Watson and Crick - Double Stranded DNA
  • Landsteiner - Protein Structure
  • Peter Mitchell - Oxidative Phosphorylation
  • Nirenberg - Genetic Code on mRNA
  • Paul Berg - Recombinant DNA Technology
  • Karry Mullis - Polymerase Chain Reaction
  • Khorana - Synthesized Gene
• Syllabus Of Biochemistry