Contains:
Introduction to the chemistry of life - Water - Nucleotides, nucleic acids, and genetic information - Amino acids - Proteins: primary structure - Proteins: tertiary structure - Protein function: myoglobin and hemoglobin, muscle contraction, and antibodies - Carbohydrates - Lipids and biological membranes - Membrane transport - Enzymatic catalysis - Enzymatic kinetics, inhibition, and control - Biochemical signaling - Introduction to metabolism - Glycolysis - Glycogen metabolism and gluconeogenesis - The citric acid cycle - Electron transport and oxidative phosphorylation - Photosynthesis - Lipid metabolism - Amino acid metabolism - Fuel metabolism in mammals: integration and regulation - Nucleotide metabolism - Structure of nucleic acids - DNA replication, repair, and recombination - Transcription and RNA processing - Protein synthesis - Regulation of gene expression.