PART ONE Introduction 1 Introduction to Biochemistry 2 Water PART TWO Structure and Function of Biomolecules 3 Amino Acids and the Primary Structures of Proteins 4 Proteins:Three-Dimensional Structure and Function 5 Properties of Enzymes 6 Mechanisms of Enzymes 7 Coenzymes and Vitamins 8 Carbohydrates 9 Lipids and Membranes PART THREE Metabolism and Bioenergetics 10 Introduction to Metabolism 11 Glycolysis 12 The Citric Acid Cycle 13 Additional pathways in Carbohydrate metabolism 14 Electron Transport and Oxidative Phosphorylation 15 Photosynthesis 16 Lipid Metabolism 17 Amino Acid Metabolism 18 Nucleotide Metabolism PART FOUR Biological Information Flow 19 Nucleic Acids 20 DNA Replication,Repair,and Recombination 21 Transcription and RNA Processing 22 Protein Synthesis 23 Recombinant DNA Technology Solutions Illustration Credits Glossary Index