Biochemistry: Concepts and Connections, 2nd edition
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📚 Delivered within 24 hours via email Biochemistry: Concepts and Connections engages you with a unique approach to visualization, synthesis of complex topics and connections to the real world. The authors build quantitative reasoning skills and provide you with a rich, chemical perspective on biological processes. The text emphasizes fundamental concepts and connections, showing how biochemistry relates to practical applications in medicine, agricultural sciences, environmental sciences, and forensics.
The 2nd Edition provides new Threshold Concept Tutorials to help you master challenging and critical ideas in biochemistry. Revised Concept and Connection statements call your attention to fundamental concepts as well as real-world applications.
Published by Pearson (August 1st 2021) – Copyright © 2022
ISBN-13: 9780137533114
Subject: Chemistry
Category: Biochemistry
Description
Table of Contents
- Biochemistry and the Language of Chemistry
- The Chemical Foundation of Life: Weak Interactions in an Aqueous Environment
- The Energetics of Life
- Nucleic Acids
- Introduction to Proteins: The Primary Level of Protein Structure
- The Three-Dimensional Structure of Proteins
- Protein Function and Evolution
- Enzymes: Biological Catalysts
- Carbohydrates: Sugars, Saccharides, Glycans
- Lipids, Membranes, and Cellular Transport
- Chemical Logic of Metabolism
- Carbohydrate Metabolism: Glycolysis, Gluconeogenesis, Glycogen Metabolism, and the Pentose Phosphate Pathway
- The Citric Acid Cycle
- Electron Transport, Oxidative Phosphorylation, and Oxygen Metabolism
- Photosynthesis
- Lipid Metabolism
- Interorgan and Intracellular Coordination of Energy Metabolism in Vertebrates
- Amino Acid and Nitrogen Metabolism
- Nucleotide Metabolism
- Mechanisms of Signal Transduction
- Genes, Genomes, and Chromosomes
- DNA Replication
- DNA Repair, Recombination, and Rearrangement
- Transcription and Post-transcriptional Processing
- Information Decoding: Translation and Post-translational Protein Processing
- Regulation of Gene Expression
APPENDICES
- Answers to Selected Problems
- References
