Friday, February 24, 2012
During the past few lectures we have discussed a lot about proteins. I have encountered such a topic in the past classes Biology 1 & 2 as well as Anatomy and Physiology 1 & 2. Some of the relative topics include the different structures of proteins, primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary, and the different types of amino acids. I have also previous learned about the composition of amino acids and how they are translated from RNA which is transcribed from the nucleic acids in DNA. Such nucleic acids in DNA are adenine, cytosine, guanine and thymine. RNA is composed of the same nucleic acids except for thymine, which rather is transcribed into uracil. From another class, chemistry 1 & 2, I have learned about the different bonds, ionic, covalent, and hydrogen, that hold the formed macromolecules together. However, this semester I have learned about a new type of interaction know as sulfide bonding which I did not previously know about.
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I agree learning about the composition of amino acids was pretty interesting. It is something we have been talking about in several classes leading up to this one. But here in biochemistry they are looked at in a little more detail, and they make a lot more sense now. Not only that but after taking organic chemistry it allowed me to easily identify all the components of the amino acid making it even easier to understand.
ReplyDeleteI wish that I had taken organic chemistry. Like you said, it would have been easier to understand but with my course load the past few semesters it would have been too much to handle as I have pretty much been taking just science classes.
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