Foundations of General, Organic, and Biochemistry

by DENNISTON

• ISBN13: 9780073311838
• ISBN10: 0073311839
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-01-11
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math

Summary

This new Foundations of General, Organic, and Biochemistry is designed to help undergraduate health-related majors, and students of all other majors, understand key concepts and appreciate the significant connections between chemistry, health, disease, and the treatment of disease. Foundations, just like its parent text, strikes a balance between theoretical and practical chemistry, while emphasizing material that is unique to health-related studies. Foundations of General, Organic and Biochemistry is designed for the one semester allied health chemistry course. This text has an easy-to-follow problem-solving approach, vivid illustrations, and engaging applications including timely "Chemistry at the Crime Scene" applications with "For Further Understanding" questions that follow to help the students think through what they just read. The art program, engaging and thought provoking questions, problems, and discussion topics, is what will make this book appealing to students and instructors alike.

Table of Contents

Chemistry: Methods and Measurement

The Structure of the Atom and the Periodic Table

Structure and Properties of Ionic and Covalent Compounds

Calculations and the Chemical Equation

Energy, Rate, and Equilibrium

States of Matter: Gases, Liquids, and Solids

Solutions

Acids and Bases

The Nucleus and Radioactivity

An Introduction to Organic Chemistry: The Saturated Hydrocarbons

The Unsaturated Hydrocarbons: Alkenes, Alkynes, and Aromatics

Oxygen- and Sulfur- Containing Organic Compounds

Carboxylic Acids, Esters, Amines, and Amides

Carbohydrates

Lipids and their Functions in Biochemical Systems

Protein Structure and Enzymes

Introduction to Molecular Genetics

Carbohydrate Metabolism

Fatty Acid and Amino Acid Metabolism

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