Biochemistry - Wikipedia mistry, is the study of chemical processes within and relating to living organisms.[1] Biochemical processes give rise to the complexity of life. A sub-discipline of both biology and chemistry, <span>biochemistry can be divided in three fields; molecular genetics, protein science and metabolism. Over the last decades of the 20th century, biochemistry has through these three disciplines become successful at explaining living processes. Almost all areas of the life sciences are b