What knowledge have you connected with past knowledge?

The topic of DNA replication and repair has appeared throughout my academic career. This topic was touched on in my introductory Biology courses and was taught very much in depth in courses such as Genetics. Such important cellular processes such as replication (and, next week, transcription) really resurface again and again in courses such as Biology.
Another interesting connection that I've made with biochemistry has to do with the presentation on why you should eat more salmon. For 3rd grade testing (which was more years ago than I'd like to admit!) I remember teachers telling us to go home and eat fish, since it's considered to be "brain food". I remember hearing the same phrase again from a 6th grade teacher when we were doing school-wide testing. Now, many years later, it is interesting to know more about the biochemistry behind why fish, such as salmon, is considered brain food!
Finally, as I work on a cardiac floor in the hospital, I hear a lot about diet and especially, cholesterol. I have learned a little about cholesterol and it's role in the cell in courses like Cell Biology. However, it is interesting to learn about the chemical structure of cholesterol and why we need it to make other things (such as steroid hormones); on the flip side, it is important to know that we don't need too much!

Find an interesting biochemistry website and put its link in this entry, and describe what is found there.

The website I found was http://bio-alive.com/animations/biochemistry.htm. The main page, http://www.bio-alive.com/ is filled with many videos about various scientific subjects such as anatomy, cell biology, cancer, histology, and many more. The biochemistry section has videos and animations that explain biochemical processes. I have found that occasionally, when information in textbooks and in lecture is confusing, it can help to watch animations or videos to clear up the material. The animations and videos found on this website, pertaining to biochemistry and other subjects, can be helpful to anyone that is struggling in any science class.