Main description:

Biochemistry is a major new textbook designed and created specifically for briefer courses in the subject. Written by Prof. Terry Brown of the University of Manchester (author of Genomes and Gene Cloning), the book provides the necessary detail and rigour expected for these courses, but without the extraneous material found in the larger textbooks.

With an increasing number of students taking a short course in biochemistry there is a growing need for a book that covers the subject concisely and succinctly.

Biochemistry has been designed from the outset for these shorter courses; it is not a cut-down version of one of the larger books that dominate the market.

Although it is shorter, there is no compromise in content, style and coverage. The book is attractively designed in full colour throughout with all the pedagogical features expected in a major textbook. It covers what students should be expected to know and is written in the clear and accurate writing style for which Terry Brown is widely lauded.

With its competitive price and resources for adopting lecturers (all of the illustrations and diagrams from the book, and answers to the end of chapter questions), Biochemistry will become the textbook of choice for any brief biochemistry course.

Confirmed Adoptions

Biochemistry is already the required text at the following institutions:

Becker College, USA

Bishop Burton College, UK

Bournemouth University, UK

Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, USA

Charleston Southern University, USA

Colorado State University - Pueblo, USA

Idaho State University, USA

Liverpool John Moores University, UK

Montclair State University, USA

Newcastle University, UK

Rivier University, USA

Southeast Missouri State University, USA

Staffordshire University, UK

Stephen F Austin State University, USA

Texas Christian University, USA

The University of Texas at Austin, USA

Umea University, Sweden

University of Aberdeen, UK

University of Bradford, UK

University of Bedfordshire, UK

University of Brighton, UK

University of the Incarnate Word, USA

University of Kansas, USA

University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, USA

University of Nottingham, UK

University of Roehampton, UK

University of Salford, UK

University of the West of England, UK

University of Tulsa, USA

Valley City State University, USA

Yale University School of Medicine, USA

Contents:

Chapter 1 Biochemistry in the modern world

PART I CELLS, ORGANISMS AND BIOMOLECULES

Chapter 2 Cells and Organisms

Chapter 3 Proteins

Chapter 4 Nucleic acids

Chapter 5 Lipids and biological membranes

Chapter 6 Carbohydrates

PART II ENERGY GENERATION AND METABOLISM

Chapter 7 Enzymes

Chapter 8 Energy generation: glycolysis

Chapter 9 Energy generation: the TCA cycle and electron transport chain

Chapter 10 Photosynthesis

Chapter 11 Carbohydrate metabolism

Chapter 12 Lipid metabolism

Chapter 13 Nitrogen metabolism

PART III STORAGE OF BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION AND SYNTHESIS OF PROTEINS

Chapter 14 DNA replication and repair

Chapter 15 RNA synthesis

Chapter 16 Protein synthesis

Chapter 17 Control of gene expression

PART IV STUDYING BIOMOLECULES

Chapter 18 Studying proteins, lipids and carbohydrates

Chapter 19 Studying DNA and RNA