Biological Connections

Studying biochemistry is a great way to realize what concepts you didn't necessarily understand while studying both biology, chemistry, and a little of organic chemistry. It seems to me that the information the other sciences left out (ie the chemical details of biological interactions) biochemistry picks up where they left off. I remember learning about amino acids in biology and how they form peptide chains in transcription/translation but I never understood how each individual amino acid interacted within the chain which would ultimately become a protein. To fully appreciate biochemistry, you must first understand biology. I remember after I had completely studied the process of protein synthesis, I was left with more questions than I had started with because there was much of the process I still hadn't learned yet. Now that I'm studying biochemistry, it's finally filling in some of the gaps for me.