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• Volume 1 Foundation of Biochemistry
• 1 Frameworks of Biochemistry. Biomolecules
• 2 Amino Acids and Peptides
• 3 Proteins
• 4 Enzymes
• 5 Carbohydrates
• 6 Lipids and Membranes
• 7 Nucleic Acids
• Volume 2 Metabolism
• 8 Introduction to Metabolism
• 9 Bioenergetics
• 10 Carbohydrate Metabolism
• 11 The Citric Acid Cycle
• 12 Electron Transport and Oxidative Phosphorylation
• 13 Lipid Metabolism
• 14 Amino Acid and Nucleotide Metabolism
• 15 Photosynthesis
• Volume 3 Transfer of Genetic Information
• 16 Introduction to Molecular Biology
• 17 Replication - The Synthesis of DNA
• 18 Transcription - The Synthesis of RNA
• 19 Translation - The Synthesis of Protein
• Appendices
• A Acid-Base Calculations
• B Principles of Organic Chemistry
• C Tools of Biochemistry
• D Oxidation-Reduction Reactions
• Answers to Problems
• Index
• Solutions Manual: Detailed solutions for the 491 problems and questions in the Biochemistry textbook