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The periodic table decided to get complicated and started doing chemistry for a living.
means A molecule made by and essential to living things — proteins, nucleic acids, carbohydrates, and lipids are the main classes.
from A straightforward 20th-century fusion of 'bio-' (Greek 'bios,' life) and 'molecule' (from Latin 'molecula,' a 'small mass,' itself a diminutive of 'moles,' mass or bulk). The term rose alongside biochemistry itself, as scientists needed a tidy word for the chemical building blocks — sugars, fats, proteins, DNA — that cells assemble into living matter.
- core four
- proteins, nucleic acids, lipids, carbohydrates run the body
- carbon backbone
- nearly all built on carbon's love of bonding
- water logic
- shape depends on hiding from or loving water
- same atoms
- identical elements as rocks, arranged into living logic