What knowledge have you connected with past knowledge?

At this point in Biochemistry, we have gone over in depth the properties and contributions of macromolecules (proteins, lipids, carbohydrates, and nucleic acids). All of which I have learned about in the past and remembering what I knew of them really helped me out when talking about them all in a biochemistry sense. In this class we focused on how their monomers are chemically arranged within their structure, meanwhile, in other disciplinary courses the only real topic of discussion was what each was composed of (proteins=amino acids, lipids=fatty acids, carbohydrates=sugars, nucleic acids=nucleotides). Also, it was necessary for us to know the functions and effects that these macromolecules act. Soon after the midterm we started talking about biological processes such as transcription and translation. These two forms of DNA replication have obviously been discussed in other classes so much of this was review. However, we did touch base with a few components I have not known much about before such as transcription factors and how previously we were taught that a certain gene can encode for only one protein when it is in fact that a certain gene can encode for many proteins. I know now that more processes are going to be covered next in upcoming lectures for this class so I hope to be able to recollect all of this material when the time comes to be able to understand it the best I can.