Functional groups

The building blocks of organic compounds are atoms. Moreover, organic compounds are carbon-based, and these carbon atoms behave as the chains or the backbones of the entire compound, allowing the addition of many atoms. In fact, some organic compounds can be comprised of immense quantities of atoms like proteins, which might contain even thousands of …

Carbon atoms: The framework of biological molecules

Reading about biochemistry, organic chemistry, or any other similar discipline will necessarily include the discussion of carbon-based compounds. Carbon atoms, as stated by Mason et al. (2014), are the framework of biological molecules. WHAT IS A CARBON ATOM? Challoner and Jackson 2017 Carbon is an element that can be found in the periodic table (group …

Ribosomes

Mason et al. 2014 We might describe the nucleus as the cell's command center. If we take this metaphor, then we might extend it to ribosomes, which would be the machines that carry out the nucleus's commands (Taylor et al. 2018). In other words, they are the cell’s protein synthesis machinery (Mason et al. 2014). …

Cell nucleus

Before delving into the next entries about Woese’s ribosomal phylogenetic tree and the possible interpretations of the ribosomal and proteinic experimental facts that biologists have been able to discover so far, it is important to discuss what nuclei and ribosomes are. Eukaryotic cells are separated from archaeal and bacterial cells for several reasons. One of …