The requirement of makes an organism's cell make-up different from the cell make-up of an inanimate object. energy, interdependence, light

Energy

Chemosynthesis is a series of chemical reactions that convert the energy in food into ATP. In contrast to photosynthesis which is using sunlight to convert and create food from the gained resources such as water, carbon dioxide and the sunlight, itself.
These two process differ from which the product they process or undergo to produce food and converted into energy for the cell to use in its many cellular activities. 

Some of her  assignments would be creation of drugs. she is a medical chemist after all so she'd need to have the necessary knowledge to make medicine which can later be sold in a pharmacy