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davbravo:
You're only saying so because you're studying biochemistry( the simplicity of a course depends on the individual )........ But if only you can study both Pharmacy and Biochemistry, then you'll know...... I'm very sure some biochemistry students won't even be able to cope with 200level pharmacy courses ( which are just the introductory aspects) not to talk of 300, 400 and 500level.........

Like you said the simplicity of the cause depends on the individual which I know is very correct. I have a friend who studies pharmacy in uniben he is in 200l going to 300l I have seen some of courses and their materials like pharm Chem, pharmacology,pharmaceutical technology and others and I can tell you they are not as difficult as the course I did like functional biochemistry (bch220) not to talk of the metabolic pathway (bch320) am going to do in my 300l level. This guy am telling you about even knows what am saying is true because he transferred from bch to pharm.

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Guy trust me buy the time u offer metabolic pathway in your 300l as a biochemist u will understand.

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Estharfabian:
probably because they're usually dumb?

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By the way if we should rate by the workload of both courses I will tell you that biochemistry is more difficult. By the time you try to memorize all the pathways you will know what am talking about.

GdexFolami:
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Those guys won't kill me with they can't even differentiate btw an aromatic compound and a cyclic aliphatic compound

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ValentineMary:
Biochemistry is simply the study of the chemistry of living things. Any other additional definition is jara. It studies plants, bacterias, protozoa, mammals, etc. But it mostly study it at the cellular level because it is at this level that many of the metabolic reactions are determined from energy production, food digestion, hormonal action, genetic inheritance, etc.

There are several biomolecules that are building blocks in all cells viz
1. Amino acid

2. carbohydrate

3. nucleic acid

4. lipids

Every structure in ur body is made up of these biomolecules. Now let us look at them and their characteristics.

[b] AMINO ACIDS

These are the building blocks for protein, there are thousands of amino acid in nature but only 20 are common in proteins viz: alanine, glycine, valine, leucine, isoleucin, glutamine, asparigine, glutamic acid, aspartic acid, lysine, arginie, methionine, cysteine, proline, histidine, phenylalanine, tyrosine, tripthophane, serine, and theronine. Don't bother about memorizing the names now. . These molecules are important because proteins are very important for living things. They make up our hormones, enzymes, food, etc a single protein may have about 1,000 amino acid sequence and they must be at the right position else bye bye to a normal life. for example sickle cell is caused by a substitution of valine instead of glutamine at position 6 of the beta chain haemoglobin.

One significant thing in the structure of all amino acid is the presence of an amino group and a carboxylic group.

CARBOHYDRATES

These are also called sugars, they have the general formular C _x (H2O) _y · They are the most common biomolecules in the cell and are primary source of energy due to their abundance.They are used to make ourwooden tables, papers, etc. But in the cell they help with structure.

There are several types which can be grouped based on number of carbon atoms or chains of sugars attached together.

According to number of carbon atoms they are:
1. Three carbon sugars: The only 2 molecules that belong to this group are triglyceraldehyde and dehydroxyacetone. They are the most simple carbohydrates.
2. Four carbon sugars: These ones are more numerous than the ones above eg erthyrose and therose. They are vital in many reactions in our body.
3. five carbon sugars: These have 5 carbons and are extremely important to living things eg ribose is used to make DNA. example include ribose, xylose, xyloluose, arabinose, etc.
4. six carbon sugar: These are the most common in living things eg glucose, fructose, mannose, galactose, etc
5. seven carbon sugar: This is extremely rare in nature eg sedoheputulose.

They can also be grouped into monosaccharide if they have only 1 sugar, disaccahride if they have 2 eg lactose, maltose, triscaharride if they have 3 eg raffinose, polysaccaharide if they have plenty eg starch.
In futher lectuers we would see how these molecules are important.

NUCLEIC ACID

Without these molecules life as we know it would not exist. They make up our DNA and RNA. They include adenine, guanine, thymine, uridine and cytidine. But molecules like uridine are found only in RNA while thymine is found only in DNA.
These molecules are also arranged in a particular order just like amino acid if there is a distortion it would lead it genetic defect.

The RNA is responsible for protein synthesis (we would look at this later on). The DNA splits to give RNA which is read in the cells in code to give protein. So a defect in DNA would lead to adefect in protein. That's why genetic defect could be fvcking dangerous.

LIPIDS

These ones are different from the rest because they don't form giant molecules like the rest. That's why they ain't polymers.
They aid in transportation of many molecules and are large energy storage molecules which also help as insulators against heat. They are also insoluble in water and polar solvent but are soluble in non polar solvent like benzene.
Examples include fatty acids, acyl glycerol, sphingolipids, cholesterol, etc.

Fatty acids are grouped based on the number of carbon atoms they contain. They also have a COOH group attached to the end. they include
1. lauric acid (12 carbon atoms)
2. myristic acid (14 carbon atoms)
3. palmitic acid (16 carbon atoms)
4. stearic acid (18 carbon atoms)
5. arachic acid (20 carbon atoms)

Fatty acid joined to phosphoglycerol to give acyl glycerol with the elimination of a phosphate group. If it is 1 then it is mono acyl glycerol, if it is 2 then it is diacyl glyceol, and if it is 3 it is triacyl glycerol.

Cholesterol are forned from an entirely different reaction involving acetyl coA.

So this is the introduction to biochemistry as we have outlined the biomolecules. Next time we go deeper.

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