Nuffield Advanced Chemistry (Third Edition): Biochemistry

The popular biochemistry special study was revised and updated for the third edition of Nuffield Advanced Chemistry. Biochemistry was first published as a special study in 1970, in a book of 166 pages with seven pages on DNA. Even in the second edition, published in 1984, the experimental work on RNA was optional. But knowledge of DNA and the ability to manipulate it in the laboratory had developed explosively in the ten years since the second edition. As a result the third edition of Biochemistry was designed to reflect these changes and help students understand how knowledge of DNA had developed and how it could alter people’s lives in the future.

Aims
1. To demonstrate the fundamental chemical nature of living processes.
2. To study the structure and behaviour of some of the major chemical compounds found in living systems.
3. To provide experimental work to illustrate how practical work in biochemistry both depends on and differs from chemical methods.
4. To support an appreciation of the applications of biochemical knowledge.

Contents of the Students’ Book
Chapter 1: Introducing biochemistry
Chapter 2: Enzymes
Chapter 3: Metabolism
Chapter 4: Nucleic acids
Chapter 5: Opportunities and challenges
Glossary
Examination questions