What is Comparative biochemistry?

Question

a. explain
b. evidence
c. examples

Answer 1

Comparative biochemistry is the study of likenesses and differences in the internal chemical processes between species of plants or animals. This is usually done on a graduate college level as a strong background in biochemistry is required.

Evidence? There are literally thousands of published articles related to this field. Many of these discuss the differences in enzymes present in different species and how these often require different sets of environmental conditions to work.

Some researchers use the similarities of the biochemistry of different species to give evidence of genetic relationships. This is sometimes controversial.

An excellent example is the journal article below by Imperial, Hadi and Amy. It looks at the differences in the binding of Molybdate by ModA in Escherichia coli.