>>12506395You should read a biochemistry textbook like Lehninger's Principles of Biochemistry. It has everything you need to learn about metabolism and chemistry of biomolecules.
>>12508528I am a biochemist but you are very off-base. We need a quantitative understanding of the world if we wish to collect information from the world in which physics and mathematics are directly involved. Mathematics helps us have a precise language with which the physics can be applied to interface with the world from which biologists, chemists, and what-not can design clever experiments using the techniques of interest to them and the world.
>>12508677The major issue with organic chemistry instruction is that it would most intuitively be taught using MO theory which, typically, is not covered well-enough in general chemistry. Instead, students typically take organic chemistry before inorganic chemistry which is the class focused on MO theory and would help students get a much better insight into organic chemistry. Even deeper of an issue is that organic chemistry is taken largely by premed, biochemistry, and biology students that will not (usually) study inorganic chemistry. Its easier to just teach the class as one focused on memorization for some of these reasons but it is certainly not ideal!
My university where I got my BS had different levels of general chemistry and organic chemistry to try and compensate for the different demographics that were in early chemistry courses (then, for physical chemistry, there were two versions for chemistry and biochemistry students as these two groups are interested in different aspects of the field).
