Music about biochemistry

Here it goes one more Christmas song (Oh Christmas tree) that was used to make a different song, this time about Biochemistry. Thanks Dr. Ahern (www.davincipress.com/metabmelodies.html)!

http://www.mediafire.com/?l2z36319b2evc3g

Biochemistry/Biochemistry

Biochemistry Biochemistry
I wish that I were wiser
I feel I'm in way o'er my head
I need a new advisor

My courses really shouldn't be
Such metabolic misery
Biochemistry Biochemistry
I wish that I were wiser

Biochemistry Biochemistry
Reactions make me shiver
They're in my heart and in my lungs
They're even in my liver

I promise I would not complain
If I could store them in my brain
Biochemistry Biochemistry
I wish that I were wiser

Biochemistry Biochemistry
I'm truly in a panic
Your mechanisms murder me
I should have learned organic

For all I have to memorize
I ought to win the Nobel Prize.
Biochemistry Biochemistry
I wish that I were wiser

Cartoon about concentration of solutions

Animation about crossingover

Here it is a link to download an animation about crossingover.

http://www.mediafire.com/?3fbcjo1l1c4kjw6

Video about buffer solutions

Tattoo - benzene

Amide group

The amide group is originated when a carboxyl group reacts with an amine group. It is characterized by the presence of a carbon bounded to an oxygen through a double bond and to a nitrogen via a single bond.

Indeed, though this is the most common representation, the amide group displays an electronic delocalization involving the oxygen, carbon and nitrogen atoms. That is, the bound between carbon and oxygen is partially double, and the same is valid for the bound between the carbon and the nitrogen. This causes the amide group to present a rigid conformation, where these three atoms define a plane.

The amide group can be located at the end of a molecule, in which case the nitrogen is connected to two hydrogens, or may be in an internal position, causing the nitrogen to be connected to a hydrogen and a second carbon, or two different carbons.

Despite having a nitrogen atom, the amide group does not have a significant alkaline behavior.
In biochemistry the amide group appears in a prominent position because it is the functional group that exists in the peptide bonds.

The amide groups can be identified by infrared spectroscopy (it shows a VCO band at about 1650 cm-1).

Game to kill aminoacids

This is my favourite biochemical game. You can download it with the link:

http://www.mediafire.com/?vf10cvmo6nsray9

Famous sentence (5)

Support bacteria – it’s the only culture some people have!