section_path: Relationship to other "molecular-scale" biological sciences
section_name: Relationship to other "molecular-scale" biological sciences
paragraph_text: Relationship to other "molecular-scale" biological sciences
  
  Researchers in biochemistry use specific techniques native to biochemistry, but increasingly combine these with techniques and ideas developed in the fields of genetics, molecular biology, and biophysics. There is not a defined line between these disciplines. Biochemistry studies the chemistry required for biological activity of molecules, molecular biology studies their biological activity, genetics studies their heredity, which happens to be carried by their genome. This is shown in the following schematic that depicts one possible view of the relationships between the fields: