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Unit 1: Introduction To Biochemistry Flashcards

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Field in which new discoveries are made almost daily about how cells manufactured molecules needed for life and how the chemical reactions by which life is maintained occur

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Biochemistry

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Basic language of all biological sciences

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Biochemistry

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Chemical substance found in living organisms and the chemical interactions of these substances with each other

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Biochemistry

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Chemical substance found within a living organisms

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Biochemical substance

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It contains water and inorganic salts

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Bioinorganic substances

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Bioorganic substances

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Carbohydrates
Lipids
Proteins
Nucleic acids

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Concerned with studying the various molecules that occur in living cells and organisms

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Biochemistry

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When these 2 substances are gathered together in a cell, their chemical interactions are able to sustain life

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Bioinorganic substance
Bioorganic substance

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Branches of biochemistry

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Medical biochemistry
Pharmaceutical biochemistry

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10
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Essence of biochemistry to life sciences

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•Genetics // Pharmacogenetics
•Physiology // oncogene
•immunology
• Pharmacology
• Toxicology
• Pathology
• Medicine

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Medical biochemistry

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Biochemistry related to human health and disease.

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Pharmaceutical biochemistry

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Involves how drugs affect the biochemistry and metabolism of human health sickness.

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Covers drug delivery, enzymology, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics and clinical pharmacology

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Pharmaceutical biochemistry

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Biochemistry of the nucleic acids lies at the heart of genetics; in turn the use of genetic approaches has been critical for elucidating many areas of biochemistry.

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Genetics

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Basis of the genetic disease

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familial hypercholesterolemia
result is severe atherosclerosis at an early age

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Pharmacogenetics

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Science relating the effect of genes on our response to drugs.
Applied in diagnostic clinical biochemistry laboratories

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Study of body function, overlaps with biochemistry almost completely.

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Physiology

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Oncogene

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Mutated gene that has potential to cause cancer

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Before an oncogene becomes mutated it is called

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Proto-oncogene

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Employs numerous biochemical techniques and man immunologic approached have found wife use by biochemist

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Immunology

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Analysis of biological fluids such as blood, serum, or plasma, urine of tissues for specific chemical constituents or physiologic processes useful for evaluation of immune factors causing disease and assessment of transplant immunosuppression

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Immunology

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Biochemistry used to suggest rational treatments of disease based on fundamental causes and mechanisms of diseases and assist in monitoring the patient response and efficacy of prescribed therapy

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Pharmacology

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branched of medicine concerned with the uses, effects and modes of action of drugs

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Pharmacology

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Poisons act on biochemical reactions or processes

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Toxicology

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Main used falls into 4 categories

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A. Routine examination of blood chemistry
B. Metabolic fate of poison
C. Measurement which define at an early stage changes which indicates effect on particular organs
D. Studies to elucidate mechanisms of toxicity

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Pathology

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Study of diseases such as
Inflammation
Cell injury
Cancer

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Paves the way to reveal the fundamental causes, mechanisms and diagnoses of diseases

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Pathology

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The 2 major concerns for workers in the health sciences and particularly health physicians are understanding and maintenance of health and the understanding and effective treatment of disease

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Medicine

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Red blood cells with normal hemoglobins

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Smooth
Disk shaped
Flexible like doughnut without holes

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Cell with sickle cell hemoglobin

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Stiff
Sticky
Form into the shape of a sickle or crescent like C

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Basic language of all biologic sciences

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Biochemistry

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