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Reading academy. [video-enabled device] : emerging. by Findaway World, LLC.(CARDINAL)345268;

Vocabulicious Kinder -- My first ABC. Sight words -- Aggie and Ben. Just like Aggie -- Writing Wizard -- ABC preschool word & picture puzzle Phonics -- ABC dinos -- A Ram. First reader, Level 1 -- Sam the Ram:. First reader, Level 1 -- Zip, Zip, Zip. First reader, Level 2 -- Fix the Rip. First reader, Level 2 -- Phonological awareness. Vol. 2 -- Susie and the Snot Monsters -- Where is Ben?Nip and Nap find the ram. Follow along as Nip and Nap run over to meet the ram!Learn to read and write letters of the alphabet! Kids will learn vowels and consonants while improving reading and writing through tracing and phonics games.Children will enjoy the interactive activities while reinforcing phonics, letter and word recognition, memory and math.Ben is so excited about his new pet dog, Aggie. He is so excited, in fact, that he wants to act just like her. But when Aggie jumps into the dryer and drinks from the toilet, Ben realizes he is done being a dog! Speakaboos' parent app, HOMER, is a proven early learning program that builds personalized learning plans for children ages 2-8-- complete with stories like this!Kim's hat has a big rip. With some help from Rob and his toolkit the rip is fixed!My First Alphabet: Sights & Sounds is the evolution of the ABC board book into multimedia format, providing illustrations of the alphabet through charming photographic images of everyday, fun objects and animals. Each letter has 2-5 photographic illustrations with voiceovers for each word and letter.Kids will demonstrate greater understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes), sound out three letter words that follow a pattern, with vowel sounds in the middle, find words that share sounds, and finally, put all of those skills together to make longer words with several different sounds. On-screen, multiple-choice reviews at the end of each segment reinforce important concepts and make learning fun.Sam the Ram sits on her mat after a long day. She takes a nap on her mat and Nip and Nap join along!Uh oh! The Snot Monsters are after Little Susie. But, they soon find out they picked the wrong girl to mess with. Like every FarFaria ebook, this title includes professional audio narration with word highlighting and a standards-aligned reading level, independently measured using the Lexile framework.Match words to their corresponding pictures while collecting stars! Featuring animals, fruit, plants, shapes, world landmarks, and more, children will enjoy a fun learning experience!It is snowing outside and Momma Bear cannot find Ben! Can you help Momma Bear find Ben? Like every FarFaria ebook, this title includes professional audio narration with word highlighting and a standards-aligned reading level, independently measured using the Lexile framework.Children and early learners can practice both lower-case and upper-case letters, numbers, shapes or full words. Writing Wizard uses fun, animated stickers and sounds to keep children motivated while learning.Nip, Nap and Yip take a trip to go ice skating. Follow along to see how they do on the ice!"This 5-level guided reading system helps kids to master verbal, reading, and writing skills; starting at any level. Every app, storybook, and video has been hand-selected to help kids gain the knowledge they need to transition from learning-to-read to reading-to-learn. Emerging packs are ideal for readers who have reached the following milestones: Asks questions to confirm understanding; Knows letter sounds; Recognizes basic sight words; Identifies patterns of text with picture support; Spells short vowel word blends; Uses drawing, dictating, and writing to compose text."--Ages 4+.Fountas & Pinnell A-C.Lexile BR40L-160L.

Subjects: Mobile apps.; Video games.; Literacy; Penmanship; Reading (Preschool); Reading;

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Foundations of biogeography : classic papers with commentaries / by Lomolino, Mark V.,1953-(CARDINAL)324669; Sax, Dov F.(CARDINAL)324668; Brown, James H.,1942 September 25-(CARDINAL)321202; International Biogeography Society.(CARDINAL)324667; National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis.(CARDINAL)324666;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Area, climate, and evolution / Philip J. Darlington Jr. (1959). Patterns of taxonomic and ecological structure of the shelf benthos during Phanerozoic time / James W. Valentine (1969). Taxonomic diversity during the Phanerozoic / David M. Raup (1972). Speciation in Amazonian forest birds / Jürgen Haffer (1969). Sympatric host race formation and speciation in frugivorous flies of the genus Rhagoletis (Diptera, Tephritidae) / Guy L. Bush (1969) -- pt. 6. The importance of islands / Robert J. Whittaker. Species and area / Olof Arrhenius (1921). Adaptive shift and dispersal in a tropical ant fauna / Edward O. Wilson (1959). An equilibrium theory of insular zoogeography / Robert H. MacArthur and Edward O. Wilson (1963). Experimental zoogeography of islands : a two-year record of colonization / Daniel S. Simberloff and Edward O. Wilson (1970). Mammals on mountaintops : nonequilibrium insular biogeography / James H. Brown (1971). Colonization of exploded volcanic islands by birds : the supertramp strategy / Jared M. Diamond (1974). The island dilemma : lessons of modern biogeographic studies for the design of natural reserves / Jared M. Diamond (1975). Fossil birds from the Hawaiian Islands : evidence for wholesale extinction by man before Western contact / Storrs L. Olson and Helen F. James (1982) -- pt. 7. Assembly rules / Nicholas J. Gotelli. Excerpt from zoogeography : the geographic distribution of animals / Philip J. Darlington Jr. (1957). Competition and the structure of ecological communities / Charles S. Elton (1946). The generic relations of species in small ecological communities / Carrington Bonsor Williams (1947).Excerpt from Results of a biological survey of the San Francisco Mountain region and desert of the Little Colorado, Arizona / Clinton Hart Merriam (1890). Excerpt from Climate and evolution / William Diller Matthew (1915). Excerpt from Zoogeography of the sea / Sven Ekman (1953). Excerpt from An introduction to historical plant geography / Evgenii Vladimirovitch Wulff (1943) -- pt. 2. Earth history, vicariance, and dispersal / Paul S. Giller, Alan A. Myers and Brett R. Riddle. Excerpt from The origin of continents and oceans / Alfred Wegener (1924). Excerpt from Transantarctic relationships and their significance, as evidenced by chironomid midges / Lars Brundin (1966). The biota of long-distance dispersal, I : Principles of dispersal and evolution / Sherwin Carlquist (1966). Mammals and land bridges / George Gaylord Simpson (1940). The bearing of certain palaeozoogeographic data on continental drift / Anthony Hallam (1967). Excerpt from Biogeography of the southern end of the world / Philip J. Darlington Jr. (1965). Mammalian evolution and the great American interchange / Larry G. Marshall ... [et al.] (1982). One hundred years of Suez Canal -- a century of Lessepsian migration : retrospects and viewpoints / Francis Dov Por (1971) -- pt. 3. Species ranges / Robert Hengeveld, Paul S. Giller and Brett R. Riddle. The role of the "accidental" / Joseph Grinnell (1922). Excerpts from Outline of the history of Arctic and boreal biota during the Quarternary Period / Eric Hultén (1937). Excerpt from An introduction to historical plant geography / Evgenii Vladimirovitch Wulff (1943).Gradient analysis of vegetation / Robert H. Whittaker (1967). Excerpts from Geographical ecology : patterns in the distributions of species / Robert H. MacArthur (1972). Excerpt from Assembly of species communities / Jared M. Diamond (1975). The assembly of species communities : chance or competition? / Edward F. Connor and Daniel S. Simberloff (1979) -- pt. 8. Gradients in species diversity : why are there so many species in the tropics? James H. Brown and Dov F. Sax. Evolution in the tropics / Theodosius Dobzhansky (1950). Latitudinal variations in organic diversity / Alfred G. Fischer (1960). Species density of North American Recent mammals / George Gaylord Simpson (1964). Latitudinal gradients in species diversity : a review of concepts / Eric R. Pianka (1966). Excerpts from Geographical ecology : patterns in the distribution of species / Robert H. MacArthur (1972). Vegetation of the Santa Catalina Mountains, Arizona, V : Biomass, production and diversity along the elevation gradient / Robert H. Whittaker and William A. Niering (1975).pt. 1. Early classics / John C. Briggs, Christopher J. Humphries -- Excerpts from Dissertation II, on the increase of the habitable earth / Carolus Linnaeus (1781) -- Excerpts from Natural history, general and particular / Georges-Louis Leclerc, Compte de Buffon (1761) -- Excerpts from Observations made during a voyage round the world, on physical geography, natural history and ethic philosophy / Johann Reinhold Forster (1778) -- Excerpt from Essai élémentaire de géographie botanique / Augustin de Candolle (1820) -- Excerpt from Essay on the geography of plants / Alexander von Humboldt (1805) -- Excerpts from Report on the Mollusca and Radiata of the Aegean Sea, and on their distribution, considered as bearing on geology / Edward Forbes (1844) -- On an isothermal oceanic chart, illustrating the geographical distribution of marine animals / James Dwight Dana (1853) -- Excerpt from The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. discovery ships Erebus and Terror in the years 1839-1843 / Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1853) -- On the general geographical distribution of the members of the class Aves / Philip Lutley Sclater (1858) -- Excerpt from Darwiniana : essays and reviews pertaining to Darwinism / Asa Gray (1876) -- Excerpts from On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life / Charles Darwin (1859) -- Excerpt from The geographical distribution of animals / Alfred Russel Wallace (1876) -- Excerpt from The history of creation, or the development of the earth and its inhabitants by the action of natural causes / Ernst Haeckel (1876) -- The history of the Neotropical region / Hermann von Ihering (1900).Two approaches to zoogeography : a study based on the distribution of butterflies, birds and bats in the Indo-Australian area / Jeremy D. Holloway and Nicholas Jardine (1968). Excerpt from The ecology of invasions by animals and plants / Charles S. Elton (1958). Why mountain passes are higher in the tropics / Daniel H. Janzen (1967). Late Pleistocene history of coniferous woodland in the Mohave Desert / Philip V. Wells and Rainer Berger (1967). The late Quaternary vegetational history of the equatorial mountains / John R. Flenley (1979). The discovery of America / Paul S. Martin (1973) -- pt. 4. Revolutions in historical biogeography / Vicki A. Funk. Excerpt from Transantarctic relationships and their significance, as evidenced by chironomid midges / Lars Brundin (1966). Excerpt from Phylogenetic systematics / Willi Hennig (1966). The problem of historical biogeography / Gareth J. Nelson (1969). Excerpt from Space, time, form : the biological synthesis / Leon Croizat (1962). Centers of origin and related concepts / Leon Croizat, Gareth J. Nelson and Donn Eric Rosen (1974). Historical biogeography : an alternative formalization / Gareth J. Nelson (1974). A method of analysis for historical biogeography / Norman I. Platnick and Gareth J. Nelson (1978). Vicariant patterns and historical explanation in biogeography / Donn E. Rosen (1978) -- pt. 5. Diversification / Lawrence R. Heaney and Geerat Vermeij. Excerpt from Evolution above the species level / Bernard Rensch (1960). Excerpt from Systematics and the origin of species / Ernst Mayr (1942). Excerpts from Darwin's finches / David Lack (1947).

Subjects: Biogeography.;

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The 99% invisible city : a field guide to the hidden world of everyday design / by Mars, Roman,author.(CARDINAL)839281; Kohlstedt, Kurt,author.(CARDINAL)837708;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 356-375) and index.1. Inconspicuous -- Ubiquitous -- Official graffiti: utility codes -- Initialed impressions: sidewalk markings -- Planned failure: breakaway posts -- A little safer: emergency boxes -- Camouflage -- Thornton's scent bottle: stink pipes -- Exhaustive outlets: fake facades -- Catalytic diverters: ventilation buildings -- Neighborhood transformers: electrical substations -- Cellular biology: wireless towers -- Resourceful artifice: production wells -- Accretions -- Seeing stars: anchor plates -- Scarchitecture: urban infill -- Lines of sight: relay nodes -- Thomassons: maintained remains -- Accumulative controversy: love locks -- Spolia of war: constructive reuse -- 2. Conspicuous -- Identity -- Vexillology rules: municipal flags -- Public bodies: civic monuments -- Fonts of knowledge: historical plaques -- Distinguished features: that fancy shape -- Safety -- Mixed signals: traffic lights -- Visibility aids: retroreflective studs -- Checkered past: recognition patterns -- Memorable but meaningless: warning symbols -- Signs of times: shelter markers -- Signage -- Broad strokes: hand-painted graphics -- Tube benders: neon lights -- Sky dancers: inflatable figures -- Outstanding directors: production placards -- Minded businesses: absent advertising -- 3. Infrastructure -- Civic -- Bureaucracy inaction: incidental bridge -- Good delivery: postal service -- Water -- Rounding down: manhole covers -- Upwardly potable: drinking fountains -- Reversing course: waste management -- Circling back: subsurface cisterns -- Apples to oysters: flood mitigation -- Technology -- Fine lines: utility poles -- Alternated currents: power grids -- Moonlight towers: street lights -- Dialed back: electricity meters -- Network effects: internet cables -- Roadways -- Accelerating change: painting centerlines -- Shifting responsibility: blaming jaywalkers -- Key indicators: crash testing -- Cemented divisions: lane separators -- Extra turns: safer intersections -- Circulating logic: rotary junctions -- Incomplete stops: calming traffic -- Reversing gears: changing lanes -- Public -- On verges: interstitial spaces -- Crossing over: pedestrian signals -- Sharrowed routes: cycling lanes -- Congestion costs: easing gridlock -- Extravehicular activities: naked streets -- 4. Architecture -- Liminal -- Imperfect security: locked entries -- Open and shut: revolving doors -- Improved egress: emergency exits -- Materials -- Stolen facades: recycling brick -- Aggregate effects: cracking concrete -- Hybrid solutions: amassing timber -- Regulations -- Secular orders: taxable units -- Formative setbacks: mansard roofs -- Heaven to hell: property limits -- Towers -- Braking good: modern elevators -- Cladding skeletons: curtain walls -- Topping out: skyscraper races -- Unanticipated loads: managing crises -- Perspective matters: redefining skylines -- Beyond above: engineering icons -- Grouped dynamics: street canyons -- Foundations -- Vernacular enclaves: international districts -- Reality checks: service centers -- Approachable ducks: commercial signifiers -- Competitive starchitecture: contrasting additions -- Heritage -- Heathen's gate: overlapping narratives -- Landmark ruling: historic preservation -- Recrowned jewel: complex restoration -- Architectural license: faithless reconstruction -- Unnatural selection: subjective stabilization -- Faded attraction: alluring abandonments -- Runed landscapes: peripheral traces -- Unbuilding codes: premeditated deconstruction --5. Geography -- Delineations -- Points of origin: zero markers -- Edge cases: boundary stones -- Defining moments: standardized time -- Road boosters: national highways -- Configurations -- Rounding errors: Jeffersonian grids -- Unassigned lands: patchwork plans -- Rectilinear revelations: coordinated layouts -- Good eixamples: reconfigured super-blocks -- Standard deviations: growth patterns -- Designations -- Citations needed: informal geonyms -- Hybrid acronames: neighborhood monikers -- Calculated omissions: unlucky numbers -- Deliberated errors: fictitious entries -- Misplaced locations: null island -- Paved ways: Tucson stravenues -- Accessible voids: nameless places -- Landscapes -- Graveyard shifts: pastoral parks -- Trailing spaces: converted greenways -- Courting palms: street trees -- Lawn enforcement: owned backyards -- Lofty treescrapers: ungrounded plants -- Synanthropes -- Naturalized denizens: common squirrels -- Ghost streams: fish stories -- Home to roost: unloved doves -- Raccoon resistance: trash pandas -- Unmanned lands: wildlife corridors -- 6. Urbanism -- Hostilities -- Loved park: dubious skateblockers -- Urine trouble: discouraging spikes -- Obstinate objects: discomforting seats -- Cities of light: dissuasive illumination -- Targeting demographics: disruptive sounds -- Exterior motives: deceptive deterrents -- Interventions -- Guerrilla fixation: unsanctioned shield --- Drawing attention: viral signage -- Asking permission: open hydrants -- Seeking forgiveness: embattled boulders -- Legitimizing action: middle way -- Catalysts -- Ramping up: cutting curbs -- Cycling through: clearing cars -- Driving away: appropriating parklets -- Grafting on: grassroots gardening -- Bumping out: collaborative peacemaking."A beautifully designed guidebook to the unnoticed yet essential elements of our cities, from the creators of the wildly popular 99% Invisible podcast." --

Subjects: Trivia and miscellanea.; Cities and towns; Public works; Design;

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Biochemistry for dummies / by Moore, John T.,1947-(CARDINAL)484054; Langley, Richard.(CARDINAL)544781;

5: Protein structure and function -- Primary structure: the structure level all proteins have -- Building a protein: outlining the process -- Organizing the amino acids -- Example: the primary structure of insulin -- Secondary structure: a structure level most proteins have -- A-helix -- B-pleated sheet -- B-turns and the Q-loops -- Tertiary structure: a structure level many proteins have -- Quaternary structure: a structure level some proteins have -- Dissecting a protein for study -- Separating proteins within a cell and purifying them -- Digging into the details: uncovering a protein's amino acid sequence -- 6: Enzymes kinetics: getting there faster -- Enzyme classification: the best catalyst for the job -- Up one, down one: oxidoreductases -- You don't belong here: transferases -- Water does it again: hydrolases -- Taking it apart: lyases -- Shuffling the deck: isomerases -- Putting it together: ligases -- Enzymes as catalysts: when fast is not fast enough -- Models of catalysis: lock and key versus induced-fit -- All about kinetics -- Enzyme assays: fixed time and kinetic -- Rate determination: how fast is fast? -- Measuring enzyme behavior: the Michaelis-Menten equation -- Ideal applications -- Realistic applications -- Here we go again: Lineweaver-Burk plots -- Enzyme inhibition: slowing it down-- Competitive inhibition -- Noncompetitive inhibition -- Graphing inhibition -- Enzyme regulation -- Allosteric control -- Multiple enzyme forms -- Covalent modification -- Proteolytic activation -- Part 3: Carbohydrates, Lipids, Nucleic Acids, And More -- 7: What we crave: carbohydrates -- Properties of carbohydrates -- They contain one or more chiral carbons -- They have multiple chiral centers -- Sweet topic: monosaccharides -- Most stable monosaccharide structures: pyranose and furanose forms -- Chemical properties of monosaccharides -- Derivatives of the monosaccharides -- Most common monosaccharides -- Beginning of life: ribose and deoxyribose -- Sugars joining hands: oligosaccharides -- Keeping it simple: disaccharides -- Starch and cellulose: polysaccharides -- 8: Lipids and membranes -- Lovely lipids: an overview -- Fatty subject: triglycerides -- Properties and structures of fats -- Cleaning up: breaking down a triglyceride -- No simpletons here: complex lipids -- Phosphoglycerides -- Sphingolipids -- Sphingophospholipids -- Membranes: the bipolar and the bilayer -- Crossing the wall: membrane transport -- Pumps -- Channels -- Steroids: pumping up -- Prostaglandins, thromboxanes, and leukotrienes: mopping up --9: Nucleic acids and the code of life -- Nucleotides: the guts of DNA and RNA -- Reservoir of genetic info: nitrogen bases -- Sweet side of life: the sugars -- Sour side of life: phosphoric acid -- Tracing the process: from nucleoside to nucleotide to nucleic acid -- First reaction: nitrogen base + 5-carbon sugar = nucleoside -- Second reaction: phosphoric acid + nucleoside = nucleotide -- Third reaction: nucleotide becomes nucleic acid -- Primer on nucleic acids -- DNA and RNA in the grand scheme of life -- Nucleic acid structure -- 10: Vitamins and nutrients -- More than one-a-day: basics of vitamins -- To B or not to B: B complex vitamins -- Vitamin B1 (thiamine) -- Vitamin B2 (riboflavin) -- Vitamin B3 (niacin) -- Vitamin B6 (pyridoxine) -- Biotin -- Folic acid -- Pantothenic acid -- Wonders of vitamin B12 -- Vitamin A -- Vitamin D -- Vitamin E -- Vitamin K -- Vitamin C -- 11: Be Quiet: Hormones -- Structures of some key hormones -- Proteins -- Steroids -- Amines -- Beyond and after: prohormones -- Proinsulin -- Angiotensinogen -- Fight or flight: hormone function -- Opening the letter: hormonal action -- Models of hormonal action -- Part 4: Bioenergetics And Pathways -- 12: Life and energy -- ATP: the energy pony express -- ATP and free energy -- ATP as an energy transporter -- It's relative: molecules related to ATP -- Nucleoside triphosphate family -- As easy as 1, 2, 3: AMP, ADP, and ATP -- Where it all comes from -- 13: ATP: body's monetary system -- Metabolism I: glycolysis -- Glucose: where it all starts -- Miles per gallon? Energy efficiency -- Going in reverse: gluconeogenesis -- Alcoholic fermentation: we'll drink to that -- Metabolism II: citric acid (Krebs) cycle -- Let's get started: synthesis of acetyl-CoA -- Three's a crowd: tricarboxylic acids -- Just a little gas: oxidation decarboxylation -- Production of succinate and GTP -- Oxaloacetate regeneration -- Amino acids as energy sources -- Electron transport and oxidative phosphorylation -- Electron transport system -- Script: oxidative phosphorylation -- Play: proposed mechanisms -- Box office: ATP production -- Involving the fats: B-oxidation cycle -- Not so heavenly bodies: ketone bodies -- Investing in the future: biosynthesis -- Fatty acids -- Membrane lipids -- Amino acids -- 14: Smelly biochemistry: nitrogen in biological systems -- Ring in the nitrogen: purine -- Biosyntheis of purine -- How much will it cost? -- Pyrimidine synthesis -- First step: carbamoyl phosphate -- Next step: orotate -- Last step: cytidine -- Back to the beginning: catabolism -- Nucleotide catabolism -- Amino acid catabolism -- Heme catabolism -- Process of elimination: the urea cycle -- Amino acids once again -- Metabolic disorders -- Gout -- Lesch-Nyhan syndrome -- Albinism -- Alkaptonuria -- Phenylketonuria --Introduction -- About this book -- Conventions used in this book -- Icons used in this book -- What you're not to read -- Foolish assumptions -- How this book is organized -- Part 1: Setting The Stage: Basic Biochemistry Concepts -- Part 2: Meat Of Biochemistry: Proteins -- Part 3: Carbohydrates, Lipids, Nucleic Acids, And More -- Part 4: Bioenergetics And Pathways -- Part 5: Genetics: Why We Are What We Are -- Part 6: Part Of Tens -- Where to go from here -- Part 1: Setting The Stage: Basic Biochemistry Concepts -- 1: Biochemistry: what you need to know and why -- Why biochemistry? -- What is biochemistry and where does it take place? -- Types of living cells -- Prokaryotes -- Eukaryotes -- Animal cells and how they work -- Brief look at plant cells -- 2: Dive in: water chemistry -- Fundamentals of H2O -- Let's get wet! physical properties of water -- Water's most important biochemical role: the solvent -- Hydrogen ion concentration: acids and bases -- Achieving equilibrium -- Sour and bitter numbers: the pH scale -- Calculating pOH -- Strong and weak: Bronsted-Lowry theory -- Buffers and pH control -- Identifying common physiological buffers -- Calculating a buffer's pH -- 3: Fun with carbon: organic chemistry -- Role of carbon in the study of life -- It's all in the numbers: carbon bonds -- Sticky chemistry: bond strengths -- Everybody has 'em: intermolecular forces -- Water-related interactions: both the lovers and the haters -- How bond strengths affect physical properties of substances -- Defining a molecule's reactivity: functional groups -- Hydrocarbons -- Functional groups with oxygen and sulfur -- Functional groups containing nitrogen -- Functional groups containing phosphorous -- Reactions of functional groups -- pH and functional groups -- Same content, different structure: isomerism -- Cis-trans isomers -- Chiral carbons -- Part 2: Meat Of Biochemistry: Proteins -- 4: Amino acids: the building blocks of protein -- General properties of amino acids -- Amino acids are positive and negative: the zwitterion formation -- Protonated? pH and the isoelectric point -- Asymmetry: chiral amino acids -- Magic 20 amino acids -- Nonpolar (hydrophobic) amino acids -- Polar and uncharged (hydrophilic) amino acids -- Acidic amino acids -- Basic amino acids -- Lest we forget: rarer amino acids -- Rudiments of amino acid interactions -- Intermolecular forces: how an amino acid reacts with other molecules -- Altering interactions by changing an amino acid's pH -- Combining amino acids: how it works -- Peptide bond and the dipeptide -- Tripeptide: adding an amino acid to a dipeptide --Part 5: Genetics: Why We Are What We Are -- 15: Photocopying DNA -- Let's do it again: replication -- DNA polymerases -- Current model of DNA replication -- Mechanisms of DNA repair -- Mutation: the good, the bad, and the ugly -- Restriction enzymes -- Mendel rolling over: recombinant DNA -- Patterns: determining DNA sequences -- Determining the base sequence -- Butler did it: forensic applications -- Genetic diseases and other DNA testing applications -- Sickle cell anemia -- Hemochromatosis -- Cystic fibrosis -- Hemophilia -- Tay-Sachs -- 16: Transcribe this! RNA transcription -- RNA polymerase requirements -- Making RNA: the basics -- Prokaryotic cells -- Eukaryotic cells -- To heck with Da Vinci: the genetic code -- Codons -- Alpha and omega -- Models of gene regulation -- Jacob-Monod (operon) model -- Regulation of eucaryotic genes -- 17: Translation: protein synthesis -- Hopefully not lost in translation -- Why translation is necessary -- Home, home in the ribosome -- Translation team -- Team captain: rRNA -- Here's the snap: mRNA -- Carrying the ball: tRNA -- Charging up the middle: amino acid activation -- Hooking up: protein synthesis -- Activation -- Initiation -- Elongation -- Termination -- Wobble hypothesis -- Variation in eukaryotic cells -- Ribosomes -- Initiator tRNA -- Initiation -- Elongation and termination -- Part 6: Part Of Tens -- 18: Ten great applications of biochemistry -- Ames test -- Pregnancy testing -- HIV testing -- Breast cancer testing -- Prenatal genetic testing -- PKU screening -- Genetically modified foods -- Genetic engineering -- Cloning -- Gene-replacement therapy -- 19: Ten biochemistry careers -- Research assistant -- Plant breeder -- Quality control analyst -- Clinical research associate -- Technical writer -- Biochemical development engineer -- Market research analyst -- Patent attorney -- Pharmaceutical sales -- Biostatistician -- Index.From the Publisher: Are you baffled by biochemistry? You're not the first, and you won't be the last. Here's the good news-you don't have to stay baffled! Biochemistry For Dummies shows you the fun and easy way to get a handle on biochemistry, apply the science, raise your grades, and prepare yourself to ace any standardized test. This friendly, unintimidating guide presents an overview of the material covered in a typical college-level biochemistry course and makes biochemistry basics easy to understand. It explains all the topics and practical applications in plain English. From cell ultrastructure and carbohydrates to amino acids, proteins, and supramolecular structure, you'll identify biochemical structures and reactions, send your grades soaring, and start looking forward to your next class, instead of dreading it. Discover how to: Master biochemistry basics; Work through biochemistry problems; Prepare for standardized tests; Grasp amino acid and protein structures; Nail down enzyme terminology; Get a grip on the Michaelis-Menton equation; Load up on carbo knowledge; Crack the nucleic acid code; Learn to love lipids-but not too much; Master the ABCs of vitamins; Apply biochem in everyday life; Explore a career in the field. From water chemistry to protein synthesis Biochemistry For Dummies gives you the vital information, clear explanations, and important insights you need to increase your understanding and improve your performance on any biochemistry test.

Subjects: Biochemistry.;

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