Richard Langley grew up in southwestern Ohio. He attended Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where he received bachelor’s degrees in chemistry and mineralogy and then a master’s degree in chemistry. His next stop was the University of Nebraska, where he received his doctorate in chemistry. Afterwards, he took a postdoctoral position at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona, followed by a visiting assistant professor position at the University of Wisconsin at River Falls. In 1982, he moved to Stephen F. Austin State University. For the past several years, he and John have been graders for the Free Response portion of the AP Chemistry Exam. He and John have collaborated on several writing projects, including 5 Steps To A 5 on the AP: Chemistry and Chemistry for the Utterly Confused. Rich enjoys jewelry making and science fiction.
Introduction | |
Setting the Stage: Basic Biochemistry Concepts | |
Biochemistry: What You Need to Know and Why | |
Dive In: Water Chemistry | |
Fun with Carbon: Organic Chemistry | |
The Meat of Biochemistry: Proteins | |
Amino Acids: The Building Blocks of Protein | |
Protein Structure and Function | |
Enzymes Kinetics: Getting There Faster | |
Carbohydrates, Lipids, Nucleic Acids, and More | |
What We Crave: Carbohydrates | |
Lipids and Membranes | |
Nucleic Acids and the Code of Life | |
Vitamins and Nutrients | |
Be Quiet: Hormones | |
Bioenergetics and Pathways | |
Life and Energy | |
ATP: The Body's Monetary System | |
Smelly Biochemistry: Nitrogen in Biological Systems | |
Genetics: Why We Are What We Are | |
Photocopying DNA | |
Transcribe This! RNA Transcription | |
Translation: Protein Synthesis | |
The Part of Tens | |
Ten Great Applications of Biochemistry | |
Ten Biochemistry Careers | |
Index | |
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