What’s the difference bewteen organic chemistry, biochemistry, and regular chemistry?
March 4th, 2010 | 
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Organic chemistry is a subdiscipline of chemistry.
Biochemistry can also be considered a subdiscipline – it is the chemistry of bio-molecules.
Regular chemistry is nothing.
Regular chemistry is the broadest, it does not discriminate between fields. It is simply, the science of chemistry and encompasses information from every field, be it physical, theoretical, inorganic, analytical, bio, organic, etc. In schools, you would call this general chemistry and teach the basic fundamentals you could find applications to in any field. Organic chemistry is the study of any compound and anything about that compound when it contains carbon and/or hydrogen. It really has nothing to do with ‘life’ which is what organic often misleads people to think. Biochemistry is the study of chemical processes that occur in living systems, obviously this is the field most people mistake organic chemistry for.