生化--郑利民课件 生引论－郑利民0509.ppt

The Chemical Unity of Diverse Lives Living organisms vs. inanimate objects chemical complexity and organization use energy in a systemic way self-replication and self-assembly Biochemistry Explains: Diverse lives in unifying chemical terms All macromolecules are made of a few simple compounds All chemical process associated with organisms at the molecular level - isolate molecules and determine their structure - analyze their function Example: the study of DNA How life began and evolved Organisms: uniform at the molecular level indicate: they arose from a common