What is Biochemistry, and how does it differ from the fields of genetics, biology, chemistry, and molecular biology?


   Biochemistry is the study of the chemical processes that make up living things. It is the driving force behind all living matter. It is a multidisciplinary field that takes the ideas of other fields and breaks it down to its essence. It is the molecular nature of life processes. It primarily involves the structures of biological cellular components, and there functions on a molecular level. 


   Biochemistry differs from these other fields such as genetics, which is the study of the structure of genes and DNA specifically, where as Biochemistry deals with the chemistry of the entire cell the genes are in. Biology obviously lends itself to the beginning of the name, but biology is more of a grand scheme ideal which includes all of the processes involved in life, and biochemistry in the molecular make up specifically withing the biological cell. Chemistry is the foundation for all matter within the universe, living or not, the gives the groundwork for biochemistry to deal specifically with the chemical interactions of living matter. Molecular biology deal more specifically with the biological form of living matter, & Biochemistry explores more on function. 


    The field of biochemistry is forever linked to these other fields with research across the board linking the other disciplines. Biochemistry is the ideals of living matter and its function, but is tied within the disciplines of genetics and its genetic differences, & molecular biology with the building blocks of transcription, translation, and replication. Biochemistry is the chemistry behind all biological processes and synthesis of biological molecules.