Dreamer Posted January 11, 2004 Share Posted January 11, 2004 What makes the job of a biochemist different than the job of the chemist? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaKiri Posted January 11, 2004 Share Posted January 11, 2004 Biochemists tend to work with living things. Hence 'bio'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blike Posted January 11, 2004 Share Posted January 11, 2004 Biochemisty is a subsect of chemistry. Typically, a "chemist" deals with primarily inorganic molecules (i.e. non-carbon based). Biochemists work with the chemical processes inside living things, like MrL said. They work closely along side organic chemists, and the line is probably somewhat blurred between biochemists and organic chemists. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaKiri Posted January 11, 2004 Share Posted January 11, 2004 The most obvious overlap is in protein interactions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VendingMenace Posted January 12, 2004 Share Posted January 12, 2004 Of course the line is somewhat blurred between biochemists and inorganic chemists too (ie. studying metals in biological systems). Really, there is quite a bit of overlap between all the chemical disaplines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cookie Posted January 13, 2004 Share Posted January 13, 2004 The complexity of biochemical systems (i.e. macromolecules) would make most organic chemists (who work more with small molecules) quiver. Organic and inorganic chemists have all kinds of fantastic physical chemical techniques that work on small molecules, but all bets are off with proteins because they fold and have all kinds of non-covalent interactions and such - but the base principles are the same and there is a lot of overlap. Cookie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dreamer Posted January 13, 2004 Author Share Posted January 13, 2004 The average salary of a biochemist is 26,000$ with a B.S and 52,000$ with a Ph.D. For a chemist it's 40,000$ with a B.S and 90,000$ with a Ph.D. Why are biochemists so poorly paid? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaKiri Posted January 13, 2004 Share Posted January 13, 2004 Probably because industrial chemists make so much money for the company. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YT2095 Posted January 13, 2004 Share Posted January 13, 2004 I`m with Cookie 100% on this, She`s just described me perfectly! Inorganics all day long for me, I`ll touch on organics if I must, as for Bio-chem, forget it! LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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