<p>I'm taking Biology SAT II this year. Part of the curriculum is biochemistry. It's sooooooooooo boring! The guy is explaining something about some thing I don't understand; I don't even know if it's in animals or plants. And he keeps talking and talking and talking for 40 minutes about molecules and bonds and the most boring stuff scientists even came up with. I nearly fell asleep in the middle of the period; but I kept my eyes open for as long as I could because our biology teacher is also the vice principal and I want to stay on his good side.</p>
<p>and so is anything realted to molecular biology.</p>
<p>^ agreed... the chemistry part of biology is really boring.</p>
<p>especially when you have to do chemical equations! I mean, i took biology so that I could get rid of chemical equations!</p>
<p>I think it's really interesting.</p>
<p>There are just certain branches of biology that put me to sleep! I prefer anatomy or something of that sort. All that stuff that you can't even see when you look at a human body is just so boring!</p>
<p>To each his own. :) I love finding out how the human body works at a molecular level. I find it very eluminating.</p>
<p>so is a light bulb!
I draw the line at enzymes. Anything past that is just too boring and too complicated to understand.</p>
<p>HOLY CRAP. I love biochemistry. I'm majoring in it. >.<</p>
<p>Any questions, please ask me, I'll try to help.</p>
<p>okay...can you please explain, and give examples of. dehydration synthesis? Is thaat even related to biochem? The ass numbing boredom I felt during the period made a few things blurry in my mind...</p>
<p>Biochemistry is sooo much better than chemistry. I hate chem with a passion.</p>
<p>but when you mix chemisrty and biology it becomes a living hell!</p>
<p>Wow, this is the first time I've heard the term dehydration synthesis. I've always called it a condensation reaction or dehydration reaction. It's all the same.</p>
<p>Let's take a look at two monomers, glucose and fructose. They're both simple sugars. However, if chemically combined (through a dehydration synthesis reaction), they become sucrose, AKA table sugar, the sugar you eat.</p>
<p>When they are combined, one monomer donates a -OH group (off of one of the carbons in its carbon ring) and the other donates a hydrogen (from an -OH extension off of a carbon), so that the two carbons both connect to the O that's left, and the -OH and the -H that are given off combine to form water.</p>
<p>C-OH HO-C</p>
<p>becomes</p>
<p>C-O-C + H2O</p>
<p>keeping in mind that there's other carbons attached to the carbons, because they're carbohydrates.</p>
<p>I LOVE chemistry. That part of bio is comforting.</p>
<p>I just have to say...thank GOD I'm not taking biochem, bio or chem. I don't really like bio and I HATE chem.</p>
<p>I couldn't have explained dehydration synthesis better myself lol.
seriously, that was a little complicated; but I think I got it now.</p>
<p>unfortunately, Molecular biology is an obligatory subject :(</p>
<p>I would love to go to your school... Our school doesn't even offer molecular biology. -_-;</p>
<p>And glad I could help.</p>
<p>but at least Ecology is also obligatory too...I like that more than Molecular bio. I just talked to the Vice principal about tutoring me...</p>