Introduction to Biochemistry, History of biochemistry, What is biochemistry and Superchemistry, Objective of Biochemistry, Importance of Biochemistry,

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Presented By
Ms. Monika P. Maske
Assistant Professor
M. Pharm
(Pharmaceutical Chemistry)
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Introduction
 The term ῾Biochemistry᾿ was first introduced by a German
chemist, Carl Newberg, in 1903.
 It may be defined as, “the science, of chemistry, of living matter
in its different phases of activity”.
 Biochemistry in its broad aspects the most comprehensive of all
the branches of chemistry includes organic, inorganic and
physical chemistry to the extent.
 Which is related to the chemistry of living things, both the plants
and animals.
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 Biochemistry is Superchemistry.
 Biochemistry includes the relationship of living organisms to their environment, the
process by which exchange of chemical sub take place through the digestion,
absorption and excretion.
 By which the absorbed materials are utilized for synthetic reactions leading to
growth & replenishment of tissues & multiplication of the cell and species for the
metabolic breakdown of materials to supply energy.
 The mechanism which regulate with precision all these processes by means of
hormonal and neuro-regulatory stimuli- all these come under the biochemistry.
 Hence, it is called superchemistry.
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 Biochemistry has wide areas of cell biology and all of molecular
biology.
 Biochemical genetics, is the field that has stimulated a lively interest, is
a field of biochemistry.
 “Genetics is the study of heredity, the process in which a parent passes
certain genes onto their children.” (such as characteristics, natural
talents and genetic disorders.)
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Objective of Biochemistry
1. To study and understand the structures and properties of substances
constituting the fretwork of cell and tissues.
2. To study the structures and properties of substances which enter the
cell as sources of energy or leave the cell as waste products.
3. To study the catalytic activity of enzymes.
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4. To study processes that convert diet into compounds which are
characterises of the cells of a given species.
5. To study the manifold energy- requiring process of the living cell.
6. To study the chemistry of inheritance.
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Scope of Biochemistry
 Study of cell structure and its components.
 Chemistry of Carbohydrates, Proteins and amino acids, Lipids.
 Chemistry of inorganic elements and their deficiency.
 Study of enzymes.
 Water metabolism, their source, regulation, etc.
 Study of vitamins and their deficiency .
 Immunochemistry.
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 Metabolism of carbohydrates and their metabolic disorders.
 Metabolism of proteins and amino acids and their metabolic disorders.
 Metabolism of lipids and their metabolic disorders.
 Chemistry of nucleic acid; Recombinant DNA- technology;
Nucleoproteins, and metabolism of nucleic acid
 Detoxification mechanism.
 Hormones and their biochemical role in the body.
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Importance of Biochemistry of Medicine
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Thank You
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