Biochemistry - Macromolecules, Metabolism, Enzymes

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A description of life at the molecular level includes a description of all the complexly interrelated chemical changes that occur within the cell—i.e., the processes known as intermediary metabolism. The processes of growth, reproduction, and heredity, also subjects of the biochemist’s curiosity, are intimately related to intermediary metabolism and cannot be understood independently of it. The properties and capacities exhibited by a complex multicellular organism can be reduced to the properties of the individual cells of that organism, and the behavior of each individual cell can be understood in terms of its chemical structure and the chemical changes occurring within ...(100 of 5269 words)

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