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CHAPTER 1

Chemistry is the Logic of

Biological Phenomenato accompany

Biochemistry, 2/e

by

Reginald Garrett and Charles Grisham

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Outline

! "istincti#e Properties of Li#ing

$ystems

!2 Biomolec%les 'olec%les of Life

!( Biomolec%lar )ierarchy

!* Properties of Biomolec%les

!+ rganiation and $tr%ct%re of Cells

!. ir%ses as Cell Parasites

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On Life and Chemistry...

0Li#ing things are composed of lifeless

molec%les1 3lbert Lehninger4

0Chemistry is the logic of biological

phenomena1 Garrett and Grisham4

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1.1 Distinctive Properties of

Livin !ystems rganisms are complicated and highly

organied

Biological str%ct%res ser#e f%nctionalp%rposes

Li#ing systems are acti#ely engaged in

energy transformations Li#ing systems ha#e a remar5able capacity

for self-replication

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1." #iomolecules$ The

%olecules of LifeH& O& C and ' ma(e up ))*+ of atoms in the

human ,ody

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9ygen .(

)ydrogen 2+!2

Carbon :!+

7itrogen !*

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1." #iomolecules$ The

%olecules of Life ;hat property %nites ), , C and 7 and

renders these atoms so appropriate to

the chemistry of life