why is the knowledgeof chemistry important to biology?
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Let's get semantical on you.\n\nWhat is biology?... the study of life, right?\n\nWhat is life? Or maybe better way of phrasing that question is: What is alive?\n\nAnything that meets all the following criteria:\n\nAble to obtain and use energy. \nAble to reproduce.\nAble to respond and adapt to their environment. \n\nSo when we study biology we study things that can do these different things and, more specifically, we study how living things do these different things. Basically, we're trying to understand how living things live.\n\nNow, back to you question concerning chemistry...\n\nHow do you suppose living things are able to do all the things on the list above? You guessed it: CHEMISTRY.\n\nAll the processes above are carried out by chemical reactions that take place between different molecules. Most of these reactions include tiny sub-microscopic machines called proteins. All these proteins are doing is carrying out very specific chemical reactions.\n\nSo when you boil it all down, biology is nothing more than the study of chemical processes that take place in living systems. In fact, it's these chemical processes that allow for life to begin with.
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This is not a pure biology question. Should be bio-chemistry.
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chemistry is the link to all other sciences!  it started it all, of course the details of it are mind numbingly complex and boring at times, but when you think about what it really is its simply amaizing...  little things, that move in relation to each other based on certian "forces"  they have no internal structure like we know it, they are pure energy and capible of aranging themselfs into all the complexity that we see in the world...  cemistry is magic!   The study of cemisty has evoked intrest in physics, biology, mathmatics, phycology, its all linked together.   You need to have a solid base of understanding to forge ahead...   Also chemestry can be very interesting if we find ourselfs face to face with the truth of what it all is and not become numb with the textbook description...  these atoms, molicules...  what are they?   these are the questions you will not answer but will get a ligering feeling that you may know what they are...  if you become aquainted with them enough.   strange stuff... and very fun to investigate.
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biology is the study of living things
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It's played a major role.  If we didn't have chemistry, we wouldn't have durable and long lasting construction materials.  Chemistry is able to tell us what materials will survive what type of weather, and the range of temperatures a material is able to survive in so that we dont use the wrong types in the wrong places, like using a weak plastic in the sahara desert, though that probably wouldnt happen.
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Biology has traditionally consisted of botany, zoology and microbiology.  Chemistry has consisted mainly of physical, organic, analytical and biochemistry.  Until relatively recently those divisions have held up reasonably well.  Now there is a whole new world of chemical and physical biology and biochemistry and biophysics.  To throw all of biology and chemistry into biochemistry would be a misnomer for many of the parts of both.  To add biochemistry or chemical biology into one pot might be a good idea to catch the questions in the area betwen
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If it counts as a chemistry discovery, the periodic table is definitely the most important.  It allows chemists to predict the chemical properties of known and undiscovered elements, including boiling and melting points, reactivity, and potential bonding.  It also provides the basis for determining the formulae of molecules and compounds, which is absolutely fundemental for chemistry.  Any chemist will tell you that the periodic table is an essential tool for chemistry.
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Chemistry is just like any other science.  You make observations of phenomena, you theorize about what is causing the phenomena observed, then you check the validity of the theory by predicting experimentation, and make sure there is repeatability of the predicted observations.\nThere are alot of things in chemistry that people don't know, and they're working on finding ways to explain/predict those things.  Until then, they have models that explain things which wouldn't be called assumptions because they're not assumed to be true.\nUnless you're talking about the assumptions that simplify equations, which we still do not think are true, they just make equations alot easier to solve.
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Chemistry is a foundation for many other disciplines.The scope of chemistry, therefore, is very broad.\n\nWhat u will gain from ur efforts, however, may be more than new knowledge about the environment n our personal realtion to it-u may improve ur learning skills and become a better thinker!
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It is a central science that under pins much of science. It teaches you not so much what to think, but how to think.
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An enzyme is a protein that catalyzes, or speeds up, a chemical reaction.\nEnzymes are essential to sustain life because most chemical reactions in biological cells would occur too slowly, or would lead to different products without enzymes\n\nLike all catalysts, enzymes work by providing an alternate pathway of lower activation energy of a reaction, thus allowing the reaction to proceed much faster. Enzymes may speed up reactions by a factor of many millions. An enzyme, like any catalyst, remains unaltered by the completed reaction and can therefore continue to function. Because enzymes do not affect the relative energy between the products and reagents, they do not affect equilibrium of a reaction.
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Biology.  Almost all the programs only require chemistry through organic, which is also a prerequisite in most biology majors.  Biochemistry itself deals precisely with diseases, helps alot with epidemics.  Most programs only recommend biochemistry at the college level.  Much more important is going to be cellular/genetic, so things such as microbiology, anatomy/physiology, and the like.  The link for my source is a link to such a CLS program.  (Clinical Labratory Science.)
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the reaction rates are important to study because in nature as in organic chemistry different reaction rates give different products.
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Biology, chemistry and math.
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something about chemistry
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Doctors use chemistry in many ways, but one of the main ways is in understanding how the body and physiology work. Chemical actions and activities are important processes in many aspects of our bodies and in other issues such as drugs (medicines) that will be used in our or on our bodies. Understanding chemistry is an important foundation to understanding these other areas.
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Chemistry is the basis of all science. Without it, many of the technological advances would not have been able to occur. There is much more you could use but I'm just too tired right now to think of anything else. Sorry.