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INTRODUCTION TO BIOCHEM Flashcards

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Chemistry of Living Things

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Biochemistry

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Chemical Basis of Life and one of the branch of Life Sciences

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Biochemistry

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Two branches of Biochemistry

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Medical and Clinical Biochemistry

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It deals with the chemical basis of human body

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Medical Biochemistry

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It deals with clinical diseases or pathological conditions of the human body.

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Clinical Biochemistry

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What are the Clinical Biochemistry supports?

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Diagnosis, Therapy, and Research

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It deals with microbes

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Bacterial Biochemistry

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8
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Deals with Plants

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Plant Biochemistry

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Deals with Animals

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Animal Biochemistry

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Deals with industrial products involved with microorganisms

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Industrial Biochemistry

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Who introduced the term “Biochemistry”?

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Carl Neuberg

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12
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Enzymes Catalysis

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Berzilus

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13
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Role of Creatine PO4 in muscles

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Lohmann

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14
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TCA cycle/ Kreb’s Cycle

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Hans Kreb

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Role of ATPs

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Fiske and Subbarow

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16
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Fermentation process

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Louis Pasteur

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17
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Enzyme Extraction

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Edward Buchner

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18
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Oxidative Phosphorylation

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Peter Mitchell

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19
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Genetic Code of mRNA

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Khorana

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20
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Synthesized Gene

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Nirenberg

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21
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Insulin

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Banting and Macleod

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Double Stranded DNA

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Watson and Crick

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Protein Structure

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Landsteiner

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Polymerase Chain Reaction

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Recombinant DNA Technology

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Karry Mullis

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What are these in Biochemistry?

  • To know the various Biomolecules composed in the Human body.
  • To determine the mode of action of Biomolecules.
  • Understand completely all the organized Biochemical processes.
  • Identification of disease mechanisms
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Aims and Objectives of Biochemistry

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Energy rich biomolecules get ____________ in body cells to liberate chemical form of energy ATP used for various body activities.

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catabolized

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The primary source of energy

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Carbohydrates

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Secondary source of energy

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Structural and functional units of the body

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Accessory growth factors

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The important role of this is in building and functioning of bodies

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Functional units of metabolism

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The chemical messenger of the body

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The cell is the fundamental unit of structure and function in living things.

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Cell Theory

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1st compound microscope

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Zacharias Janssen

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Viewed the cell walls of cork and coined the term ‘cell’

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Robert Hooke

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Discovered the protozoa and bacteria called animacules

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Antony Van Leewenhoek

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All plant tissues are composed of cells

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Matthias Schleiden

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This person concludes that the animals are composed of cells as well and states that cell is the basic unit of all organisms

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Theodor Schwann

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He’s theory says that cells only come from other living cells

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Rudolf Virchow

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He discovered nucleus in plant cells

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Robert Brown

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“Cells are the basic unit of life”

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Carl Braun

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This are the function of __________

  • Must respond to changes
  • Must grow and develop
  • Able to reproduce
  • Must have metabolism
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Type of cell that is:

Unicellular
Small and simple
No nucleus
Lack of membrane-bound organelles
Cell division is by BINARY FISSION

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Prokaryotic Cells

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Type of cell that is:

Cell division is by MITOSIS
Nucleus is present
Complex
Contains membrane-bound organelles

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Eukaryotic Cells

47
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Composed of bilayer of phospholipids and protein

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Cell/Plasma Membrane

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The HEADS are HYDROPHILIC and the TAILS are HYDROPHOBIC

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Phospholipids

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A process which two daughter cells are generated having the same number of chromosome as the parent cell

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Have two cell division and it is a replication of DNA

51
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Carbohydrates, Lipids, Proteins, and Nucleic acids are ___________

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Biomoleules

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Energy storage in plants

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Energy storage in animals

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