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The meaning of sex [videorecording] : genes [and] gender. by Meyer, Barbara J.(CARDINAL)327296; Page, David C.(CARDINAL)327295; Howard Hughes Medical Institute.(CARDINAL)274867;

Lecture 1. Deciphering the language of sex -- lecture 2. Hermaphrodities, the safer sex -- lecture 3. Sex and death, too much of a good thing -- lecture 4. Sexual evolution, from X to Y.Editors, Judith Brody Saks, Tim Baney.Speakers: Barbara J. Meyer, David C. Page.Why does sex exist, and what is its purpose and function? What decides whether an individual will be male of female? How are chromosomes, genes, and molecules involved in determining sex? In four lectures, two leading scientists in the field of sex-determination research answer these questions.DVD player required.

Subjects: Genetic sex determination.; Sex chromosomes.; Sex Determination Processes.; Gene Expression Regulation.; Sex Chromosomes.;

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Brock biology of microorganisms / by Madigan, Michael T.,1949-(CARDINAL)333909; Martinko, John M.,author.(CARDINAL)333908; Parker, Jack,1945-author.(CARDINAL)333907;

Microorganisms and microbiology -- Macromolecules -- Cell biology -- Nutrition and metabolism -- Microbial growth -- Principles of microbial molecular biology -- Regulation of gene expression -- Viruses -- Microbial genetics -- Genetic engineering and biotechnology -- Industrial microbiology/biocatalysis -- Microbial evolution and systematics -- Prokaryotic diversity : Bacteria -- Prokaryotic diversity : The archaea -- Metabolic diversity -- Microbial ecology -- Eukaryotic microorganisms -- Microbial growth control -- Most-parasite relationships -- Concepts of immunology -- Clinical and diagnostic microbiology and immunology -- Edipdemiology and public health microbiology -- Person-to-person microbial diseases -- Animal-transmitted, vectorborne, and common-source microbial diseases.Introductory text in microbiology, covering the major classical concepts essential for understanding the science.

Subjects: Microbiology.;

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Biology : concepts & connections / by Campbell, Neil A.,1946-2004.(CARDINAL)316411;

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Life, the science of biology / by Purves, William K.(William Kirkwood),1934-(CARDINAL)726684;

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Subjects: Biology.;

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The code breaker : Jennifer Doudna and the race to understand our genetic code / by Isaacson, Walter,author.(CARDINAL)170977; Durand, Sarah,author,adaptor.(CARDINAL)354703;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-320)."Walter Isaacson's #1 New York Times bestselling history of our third scientific revolution: CRISPR, gene editing, and the quest to understand the code of life itself, is now adapted for young readers."--"When Jennifer Doudna was a sixth grader in Hilo, Hawaii, she came home from school one afternoon and found a book on her bed. It was The Double Helix, James Watson's account of how he and Francis Crick had discovered the structure of DNA, the spiral-staircase molecule that carries the genetic instruction code for all forms of life. This book guided Jennifer Doudna to focus her studies not on DNA, but on what seemed to take a backseat in biochemistry: figuring out the structure of RNA, a closely related molecule that enables the genetic instructions coded in DNA to express themselves. Doudna became an expert in determining the shapes and structures of these RNA molecules--an expertise that led her to develop a revolutionary new technique that could edit human genes. Today gene-editing technologies such as CRISPR are already being used to eliminate simple genetic defects that cause disorders such as Tay-Sachs and sickle cell anemia. For now, however, Jennifer and her team are being deployed against our most immediate threat--the coronavirus--and you have just been given a front row seat to that war." --Ages 8-12Grades 4-61180L

Subjects: Biographies.; Doudna, Jennifer A.; CRISPR (Genetics); Gene editing; Genetics; Biochemists; Nobel Prize winners; Women scientists; Gene editing; Biotechnology;

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Harper's illustrated biochemistry.

Subjects: Periodicals.; Biochemistry;

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Environmental physiology / by Fregly, Melvin J.(CARDINAL)324917; Blatteis, Clark M.(CARDINAL)324916; American Physiological Society (1887- )(CARDINAL)324915;

Includes bibliographical references and index.V. 1. Adaptation to the environment: overview -- Adaptations: some general characteristics -- Physical forces, sensory reception, and response to the environment -- Interplay of behavioral and physiological mechanisms in adaptation -- Thermal environment -- Mechanisms of homeostatic responses to thermal stimulation -- Mechanisms of heat exchange: biophysics and physiology -- Peripheral thermosensors -- Hypothalamic neurons regulating body temperature -- Interaction of body temperatures in control of thermoregulatory effector mechanisms -- Evidence for roles of brain peptides in thermoregulation -- Adaptive responses to heat -- Thermoregulatory responses to acute exercise-heat stress and heat acclimation -- Body fluid balance during heat stress in humans -- Cardiovascular adjustments to heat stress -- Endocrinological and metabolic responses to acute and chronic heat exposures -- Heat stress and behavior -- Estivation -- Limitation of heat tolerance -- Adaptive responses to cold -- Homeostatic responses to acute cold exposure: thermogenic responses in birds and mammals -- Human thermoregulatory responses to acute cold stress with special reference to water immersion -- Thermogenic responses to prolonged cold exposure: birds and mammals -- Homeostatic responses to prolonged cold exposure: human cold acclimatization -- Neural and hormonal responses to prolonged cold exposure -- Behavioral thermoregulation in the cold -- Torpor and hibernation in mammals: metabolic, physiological, and biochemical adaptations -- Hibernation in mammals: central nervous system function -- Responses to seasonal change in polar mammals -- Limits of tolerance to hypothermia -- Integrative responses to heat and cold -- Central regulation of adaptive responses to heat and cold -- Ontogenetic and adaptive adjustments in the thermoregularoty system -- Modeling homeostatic responses to heat and cold -- Gravitational environment -- Microgravity -- Cardiovascular system in microgravity -- Respiratory system in microgravity -- Skeleton and its adaptation to gravity -- Neuromuscular adaptations to actual and simulated spaceflight -- Adaptation of the vestibular system to microgravity.V. 2. Radiation in microgravity -- Effect of spaceflight on lymphocyte function and immunity -- Exercise and adaptation to microgravity environments -- Renal, endocrine, and hemodynamic effects of water immersion in humans -- Head-out water immersion: animal studies -- Physiology of bed rest -- Hypergravity -- Adaptation to accleration environments -- Hyperbaric environment -- Underwater physiology of man -- Hyperbaria/diving: introduction -- Hyperbaria: breath-hold diving -- Gas physiology in diving -- Mixed-gas saturation diving -- Diving mammals -- Diving physiology of the Weddell seal -- Terrestrial altitude environment -- Evolutionary aspects of atmospheric oxygen and organisms -- Tissue capacity for mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation and its adaptation to stress -- Metabolic defense adaptations to hyperbaric hypoxia in man -- Hypoxia, erythropoietin gene expression, and erythropoiesis -- Morphologic and metabolic response to chronic hypoxia: the muscle system -- Peripheral chemoreceptors and their sensory neurons in chronic states of hypo- and hyperoxygenation -- Ventilatory responses to acute and chronic hypoxia -- Cardiovascular system at high altitude -- Endocrine adaptation to hypoxia -- Body fluid and energy metabolism at high altitude -- Brain hypoxia: metabolic and ventilatory depression -- Physiology of extreme altitude -- Chronobiological environment -- Circadian rhythms -- Sleep, thermoregulation, and circadian rhythms -- Relationship between food and sleep -- Nutritional environment -- Human adaptation to energy undernutrition -- Physiological responses of mammals to overnutrition -- Effects of altered vitamin and mineral nutritional status on temperature regulation and thermogenesis in the cold -- Nutrition and exercise in adverse environments -- Intestinal adaptation to environmental stress -- Microbial environment -- Adaptation to the microbial environment -- Psychosocial environment -- Place of behavior in physiology -- Neuroimmunomodulation: neuroimmune interactions with the environment.

Subjects: Handbooks and manuals.; Ecophysiology; Bioclimatology; Human beings; Adaptation (Physiology);

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Insect molecular genetics : an introduction to principles and applications / by Hoy, Marjorie A.(CARDINAL)854169;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Ch. 1. DNA and Gene Structure -- Ch. 2. DNA Replication, Mutations, and Recombination -- Ch. 3. Transcription, Translation, and Regulation of Eukaryotic DNA -- Ch. 4. Chromosomal and Extrachromosomal Organization of DNA in Insects -- Ch. 5. Genes, Genome Organization, and Development in Insects -- Ch. 6. Some Basic Tools: How to Cut, Paste, Copy, Measure, and Visualize DNA -- Ch. 7. Cloning and Expression Vectors, Libraries, and Their Screening -- Ch. 8. DNA Sequencing and Genome Analysis -- Ch. 9. DNA Amplification by the Polymerase Chain Reaction: Molecular Biology Made Accessible -- Ch. 10. P Elements and P-Element Vectors for Transforming Drosophila -- Ch. 11. Sex Determination in Insects -- Ch. 12. Molecular Genetics of Insect Behavior -- Ch. 13. Insect Molecular Systematics and Evolution -- Ch. 14. Insect Population Ecology and Molecular Genetics -- Ch. 15. Transgenic Pest and Beneficial Arthropods for Pest Management Programs -- Appendix I: Time Line of Events in Genetics, Molecular Biology, and Insect Molecular Genetics.

Subjects: Insects;

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Microbiology for dummies / by Stearns, Jennifer C.(CARDINAL)789179; Kaiser, Julie.(CARDINAL)789181; Surette, Michael G.(CARDINAL)789180;

pt. I. Getting started with microbiology -- 1. Microbiology and you -- Why microbiology? -- Introducing microorganisms -- Deconstructing microbiology -- 2. Microbiology : the young science -- Before microbiology : misconceptions and superstitions -- Discovering microorganisms -- Debunking the myth of spontaneous generation -- Improving medicine, from surgery to antibiotics and more -- Looking at microbiology outside the human body -- The future of microbiology -- Frontiers -- Challenges -- 3. Microbes : they're everywhere and the can do everything -- Habitat diversity -- Metabolic diversity -- Getting energy -- Capturing carbon -- Making enzymes -- Secondary metabolism -- The intersection of microbes and everyone else --pt. II. Balancing the dynamics of microbial life -- Seeing the shapes of cells -- Life on a minute scale : considering the size of prokaryotes -- The cell : an overview -- Scaling the outer membrane and cell walls -- Examining the outer membrane -- Exploring the cell wall -- Other important cell structures -- Divining cell division -- Tackling transport systems -- Passive transport -- Active transport -- Keeping things clean with efflux pumps -- Getting around with locomotion -- 5. Making sense of metabolism -- Converting with enzymes -- In charge of energy : oxidation and reduction -- Donating and accepting electrons -- Bargaining with energy-rich compounds -- Storing energy for later -- Breaking down catabolism -- Digesting glycolysis -- Stepping along with respiration and electron carriers -- Moving with the proton motive force -- Turning the citric acid cycle -- Stacking up with anabolism -- Creating amino acids and nucleic acids -- Making sugars and polysaccharides -- Putting together fatty acids and lipids -- 6. Getting the gist of microbial genetics -- Organizing genetic material -- DNA : the recipe for life -- Perfect plasmids -- DNA replication -- Assembling the cellular machinery -- Making messenger RNA -- Other types of RNA -- synthesizing protein -- DNA regulation -- Regulating protein function -- Changing the genetic code -- Slight adjustments -- Major rearrangements -- 7. Measuring microbial growth -- Getting growth requirements right -- Physical requirements -- Chemical requirements -- Culturing microbes in the lab -- Observing microbes -- Counting small things -- Seeing morphology -- Calculating cell division and population growth -- dividing cells -- Following growth phases -- Inhibiting microbial growth -- Physical methods -- Disinfectants --pt. III. Sorting out microbial diversity -- 8. Appreciating microbial ancestry -- Where did microbes come from? -- Tracing the origins of life -- Diversifying early prokaryotes -- The impact of prokaryotes on the early earth -- Hitching a ride : endosymbiosis -- Understanding evolution -- Studying evolution -- Choosing marker genes -- Seeing the direction of gene transfer in prokaryotes -- Classifying and naming microbes -- Climbing the tree of life -- 9. Harnessing energy, fixing carbon -- Forging ahead with autotrophic processes -- Fixing carbon -- Using the energy in light -- Harvesting light : chlorophylls and bacteriochlorophylls -- Helping photosynthesis out : carotenoids and phycobilins -- Generating oxygen (or not) : oxygenic and anoxygenic photosynthesis -- Getting energy from the elements : chemolithotrophy -- Harnessing hydrogen -- Securing electrons from sulfur -- Pumping iron -- Oxidizing nitrate and ammonia -- 10. comparing respiration and fermentation -- Lifestyles of the rich and facultative -- Digging into respiration -- Spinning the citric acid cycle -- Stepping down the electron transport chain -- Respiring anaerobically -- Figuring out fermentation -- 11. Uncovering a variety of habitats -- Defining a habitat -- Understanding nutrient cycles -- Carbon cycling -- Nitrogen cycling -- Sulfur cycling -- Phosphorous cycles in the ocean -- Microbes socializing in communities -- Using quorum sensing to communication -- Living in biofilms -- Exploring microbial mats -- Discovering microbes in aquatic and terrestrial habitats -- Thriving in water -- Swarming soils -- Getting along with plants and animals -- Living with plants -- Living with animals -- Living with insects -- Living with ocean creatures -- Tolerating extreme locations -- Detecting microbes in unexpected places --pt. IV. Meeting the microbes -- 12. Meet the prokaryotes -- Getting to know the bacteria -- The gram-negative bacteria : proteobacteria -- More gram-negative bacteria -- The gram-positive bacteria -- Acquainting yourself with the archaea -- Scalding : extreme thermophiles -- Acidic : extreme acidophiles -- Salty : extreme halophiles -- Not terribly extreme archaea -- 13. Say hello to eukaryotes -- Fun with fungi -- Figuring out fungal physiology -- Itemizing fungal diversity -- Interacting with plant roots -- Ascomycetes -- MUshrooms : basidiomycetes -- Perusing the protists -- Making us sick : apicoplexans -- Making plants sick : oomycetes -- chasing amoeba and ciliates -- Encountering the algae -- 14. Examining the vastness of viruses -- Hijacking cells -- Frugal viral structure -- Simplifying viral function -- Making heads or tails of bacteriophage -- Lytic phage -- Temperate phage -- Transposable phage -- Discussing viruses of eukaryotes -- Infecting animal cells -- Following plant viruses -- How host cells fight back -- Restriction enzymes -- CRISPR -- Interfering with RNA viruses : RNAi --pt. V. Seeing the impact of microbes -- 15. Understanding microbes in human health and disease -- Clarifying the host immune response -- Putting up barriers to infection -- Inflammation -- Innate immunity -- Adaptive immunity -- Antibodies -- Relying on antimicrobials for treating disease -- Fundamental features of antibiotics -- Targets of destruction -- Unraveling microbial drug resistance -- Discovering new antibiotics -- Searching out superbugs -- Vancomycin-resistant enterococci -- Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus -- Clostridium difficile -- Extended-spectrum beta-lactamases -- Prebiotics and probiotics -- Antiviral drugs -- 16. Putting microbes to work : biotechnology -- Using recombinant DNA technology -- Making the insert -- Employing plasmids -- Restriction enzymes -- Getting microbes to take up DNA -- Using promoters to drive expression -- Expression vectors -- Folding proteins -- Metabolic load -- Long, multigene constructs -- Providing therapies -- Improving antibiotics -- Developing vaccines -- Using microbes industrially -- Protecting plants wit microbial insecticides -- Making biofuels -- Bioleaching metals -- Cleaning up with microbes -- 17. Fighting microbial diseases -- Protecting public health : epidemiology -- Tracking diseases -- Investigating outbreaks -- Identifying a microbial pathogen -- characterizing morphology -- Using biochemical tests -- Typing strains with phage -- Using serology -- Testing antibiotic susceptibility -- Understanding vaccines -- How vaccines work -- Ranking the types of vaccines --pt. VI. New frontiers in microbiology -- 18. Teasing apart communities -- Studying microbial communities -- Borrowing from ecology -- Seeing what sets microbial communities apart from plants and animals -- Observing communities : microbial ecology methods -- Selecting something special with enrichment -- Seeing cells through lenses -- Measuring microbial activity -- Identifying species using marker genes -- Getting the hang of microbial genetics and systematics -- Sequencing whole genomes -- Using metagenomics to study microbial communities -- Reading microbial transcriptomics -- Figuring out proteomics and metabolomics -- Looking for microbial dark matter -- 19. Synthesizing life -- Regulating genes : the lac operon -- Using a good natural system -- Improving a good system -- Designing genetic networks -- Switching from one state to another -- Oscillating between states -- Keeping signals short -- The synthetic biologist's toolbox -- Making it modular -- Participating in iGEM competition --pt. VII. The part of tens -- 20. Ten (or so) diseases caused by microbes -- Ebola -- Anthrax -- Influenza -- Tuberculosis -- HIV -- Cholera -- Smallpox -- Primary amoebic menigoencephalitis -- The unknown -- 21. Ten great uses for microbes -- Making delicious foods -- Growing legumes -- Brewing beer, liquor, and wine -- Killing insect pests -- Treating sewage -- Contributing to medicine -- Setting up your aquarium -- Making and breaking down biodegradable plastics -- Turning over compostable waste -- Maintaining a balance -- 22. Ten great uses for microbiology -- Medical care -- Dental care -- Veterinary care -- Monitoring the environment -- Making plants happy -- Keeping fish swimming strong -- Producing food, wine, and beer -- Science hacking -- Looking for microbes in clean rooms -- Producing pharmaceuticals.Does microbiology make your head spin? The authors make the subject accessible and fun, to help you grasp life at the cellular level. Whether you need to score big at exam time, or just want to satisfy your curiosity, this guide will help you discover the main types of microorganisms and the benefits of their microbial communities.--

Subjects: Microbiology;

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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.

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