Biochemistry: concepts and connections
- ed 2
- New York Pearson Education Limited 2019
- 925 p. PB 27x24 cm.
Biochemistry: Concepts and Connections engages students with a unique approach to visualization, synthesis of complex topics, and connections to the real world. The author team builds quantitative reasoning skills and provides students 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 newly revised 2nd Edition integrates even more robust biochemistry-specific content in Mastering™ Chemistry, creating an interactive experience for today’s students. New Threshold Concept Tutorials help students master the most challenging and critical ideas in biochemistry, while Interactive Case Studies connect course material to the real world by having students explore actual scientific data from primary literature. Table of Contents: 1. Biochemistry and the Language of Chemistry 2. The Chemical Foundation of Life: Weak Interactions in an Aqueous Environment 3. The Energetics of Life 4. Nucleic Acids 5. Introduction to Proteins: The Primary Level of Protein Structure 6. The Three-Dimensional Structure of Proteins 7. Protein Function and Evolution 8. Enzymes: Biological Catalysts 9. Carbohydrates: Sugars, Saccharides, Glycans 10. Lipids, Membranes, and Cellular Transport 11.Chemical Logic of Metabolism 12. Carbohydrate Metabolism: Glycolysis, Gluconeogenesis, Glycogen Metabolism, and the Pentose Phosphate Pathway 13.The Citric Acid Cycle 14 .Electron Transport, Oxidative Phosphorylation, and Oxygen Metabolism 15 .Photosynthesis 16. Lipid Metabolism 17. Interorgan and Intracellular Coordination of Energy Metabolism in Vertebrates 18. Amino Acid and Nitrogen Metabolism 19. Nucleotide Metabolism 20. Mechanisms of Signal Transduction 21. Genes, Genomes, and Chromosomes 22. DNA Replication 23. DNA Repair, Recombination, and Rearrangement 24. Transcription and Post-transcriptional Processing 25. Information Decoding: Translation and Post-translational Protein Processing 26. Regulation of Gene Expression