7 Part 3: Carbohydrates, Lipids, Nucleic Acids, and More, Oh My! Chapter 7: What We Crave: Carbohydrates Properties of Carbohydrates A Sweet Topic: Monosaccharides Sugars Joining Hands: Oligosaccharides The Aldose Family of Sugars Chapter 8: Lipids and Membranes Lovely Lipids: An Overview A Fatty Subject: Triglycerides No Simpletons Here: Complex Lipids Membranes: The Bipolar and the Bilayer Prostaglandins, Thromboxanes, and Leukotrienes: Mopping Up Chapter 9: Nucleic Acids and the Code of Life Nucleotides: The Guts of DNA and RNA Tracing the Process: From Nucleoside to Nucleotide to Nucleic Acid A Primer on Nucleic Acids Chapter 10: Vitamins: Both Simple and Complex More than One-a-Day: Basics of Vitamins To B or Not to B: B Complex Vitamins Vitamin A Vitamin C Vitamin D Vitamin E Vitamin K Chapter 11: Hormones: The Body’s Messengers Structures of Some Key Hormones Now and Later: Prohormones Fight or Flight: Hormone Function
8 Part 4: Bioenergetics and Pathways Chapter 12: Life and Energy ATP: The Energy Pony Express It’s Relative: Molecules Related to ATP Where It All Comes From Chapter 13: ATP: The Body’s Monetary System Metabolism I: Glycolysis Metabolism II: Citric Acid (Krebs) Cycle Electron Transport and Oxidative Phosphorylation Investing in the Future: Biosynthesis Chapter 14: Smelly Biochemistry: Nitrogen in Biological Systems Ring in the Nitrogen: Purine Pyrimidine Synthesis Back to the Beginning: Catabolism Process of Elimination: The Urea Cycle Amino Acids Once Again Metabolic Disorders
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Part 5: Genetics: Why We Are What We Are
Chapter 15: Photocopying DNA
Let’s Do It Again: Replication
Mendel Rolling Over: Recombinant DNA
Patterns: Determining DNA Sequences
Genetic Diseases and Other DNA Testing Applications
Chapter 16: Transcribe This! RNA Transcription
Types of RNA
RNA Polymerase Requirements
Making RNA: The Basics
Not a Secret Any Longer: The Genetic Code
Models of Gene Regulation
Chapter 17: Translation: Protein Synthesis
Hopefully Not Lost in Translation
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