Biochemistry: Study of Chemical Processes in Living Organisms
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Biochemistry: Study of Chemical Processes in Living Organisms

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What is the primary application of biochemistry in agriculture?

  • Studying nutritional deficiencies in crops
  • Manipulating living systems for industrial processes
  • Investigating the causes and cures of plant diseases
  • Improving crop cultivation, crop storage, and pest control (correct)

    • When was the term 'biochemistry' first used?

  • 1858 (correct)
  • 1897
  • 1826
  • 1877

    • Who is considered to have made the first demonstration of a complex biochemical process?

  • Anselme Payen
  • Antoine Lavoisier
  • Justus von Liebig
  • Eduard Buchner (correct)

    • What did F. Gowland Hopkins study in the field of biochemistry?

    <p>The chemistry of enzymes</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are the two primary fields in which the findings of biochemistry are applied?

    <p>Medicine and agriculture</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are the three main fields into which biochemistry may be divided?

    <p>Structural biology, enzymology, and metabolism</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which area of study focuses on understanding the chemical basis that allows biological molecules to give rise to processes within living cells and between cells?

    <p>Biochemistry</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What type of molecules are the main focus of biochemistry?

    <p>Biological macromolecules such as proteins, nucleic acids, carbohydrates, and lipids</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which field is closely related to biochemistry and focuses on the study of the molecular mechanisms of biological phenomena?

    <p>Molecular biology</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does biochemistry depend upon for the chemistry of the cell?

    <p>Reactions of small organic molecules</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are the primary fields into which biochemistry may be divided?

    <p>Structural biology, enzymology, and metabolism</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following areas of study focuses on the molecular mechanisms of biological phenomena and is closely related to biochemistry?

    <p>Molecular biology</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does much of biochemistry deal with in terms of biological macromolecules?

    <p>Structures, bonding, function, and interactions</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which sub-discipline combines both chemistry and biology in the study of chemical processes within living organisms?

    <p>Biochemistry</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary focus of biochemistry in relation to cells and organisms?

    <p>Investigating the chemical basis underlying biological processes</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What did Vinzenz Kletzinsky's 'Compendium der Biochemie' contribute to?

    <p>The origin of the term 'biochemistry'</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which scientist's work is sometimes considered the beginning of biochemistry due to the chemical theory of metabolism?

    <p>Justus von Liebig</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What was the influential 1842 work by Justus von Liebig, Animal chemistry, also known as?

    <p>Organic chemistry in its applications to physiology and pathology</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What did Eduard Buchner demonstrate in 1897 that some consider as the birth of biochemistry?

    <p>Complex biochemical process alcoholic fermentation in cell-free extracts</p> Signup and view all the answers

    In 1858, Vinzenz Kletzinsky's 'Compendium der Biochemie' derived the term 'biochemistry' from a combination of which two fields?

    <p>Biology and chemistry</p> Signup and view all the answers

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