INTRODUCTION TO BIOCHEM

• Biochemistry


  The study of life processes and the remarkable properties of how living organisms arise from different biomolecules. It involves unraveling complex intracellular processes that allow life.
• Medicine


  Any intellectual investigation on health and disease that can only be found upon biochemistry
• Domains of life

  • Bacteria
  • Archea
  • Eukarya
• Eukaryotes


  Comes from the greek words eu that means true and karyon which means nucleus; membranous organelles with high degree of compartmentalization and usually multicellular
• Prokaryotes


  Coined from the words Pro meaning before and karyon meaning nucleus; It no nucleus nor membranous organelles and usually with a cell wall or capsule
• Semi-Permeable


  The characteristic of the cell membrane that allows the entry of some substances and some not
• Fluid Mosaic Model


  An impeccable model of the plasma membrane emphasizing its fluid characteristic