General Concepts of Plant Biochemistry
@inproceedings{Butnariu2018GeneralCO, title={General Concepts of Plant Biochemistry}, author={Monica Butnariu}, year={2018} }
Biochemistry is the study of the chemical processes in living organisms. It deals with the structure and the function of cellular components such as: proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, nucleic acids and other biomolecules. Although there is a vast number of different biomolecules, many of them are complex and large molecules (called polymers), composed of similar repeating subunits (called monomers). Each class of polymeric biomolecules has a different set of subunit types. For example, a protein…
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General Concepts of Plant Biochemistry
- Biology, Chemistry
- 2018
Since all known life forms that are still alive today are descended from the same common ancestor, generally they have similar biochemistries, and it is unknown whether alternative biochemistryistries are possible or practical.
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