Chemistry’s Role in Understanding the Dance of Life Is chemistry really important in comprehending life? Is it vital in understanding biology? Can we understand biology or the life per se without the presence of chemistry? As a cliché’ of most textbooks, chemistry is the central science. Meaning it all encompasses the branches of science including biology and physics. And if we try to define what is chemistry, it is said to be the branch of science concerning with the study of matter and the changes it undergoes and the factors that affects these changes. We, the humans, are living things and we are considered to be matter. Living things perform the best gift of God which is life. And the study of life is said to be biology. So therefore, with this simple logic, we can say that chemistry and biology are interrelated with each other. We can’t understand life without some basic knowledge of chemistry. Chemistry is so imperative in understanding life. Specially, the processes that are occurring in our body. We may define the terms respiration, digestion, metabolism, and reproduction scientifically but without proper information about the chemical processes we can’t really appreciate and discern them. Why we breath, digest, metabolize and reproduce has something to do with the latter. Chemistry is very necessary and ponderous in understanding different fields that is associated with the life of plants (botany), animals (zoology), minute organisms (microbiology) and of course the race of Homo sapiens sapiens . For example in the field of health, in my personal case, weeks from now I’ve been experiencing excruciating pain in my knees and with my foot. I can’t walk properly because of the pain, so I decided to see a doctor. They found out that the reason behind the pain is that my uric acid is higher versus the normal value. And that is