Description
The constantly expanding terrain covered by biochemistry ranges from the study of minute molecules, through cells, plants and animals and human beings, to the great underlying issues of the origin, nature and unity of life.
Biochemists, argues Steven Rose, Professor of Biology at the Open University, are essentially concerned with four questions: the chemical composition of cells, how such chemicals are converted into others, how cells maintain their structures, and how they perform particular functions. In starting from the first principles and offering lucid expositions of all these topics, he also provides marvellously concise accounts of energy provision and the role of enzymes, industrial and medical uses of biochemistry and the part that DNA plays in information transfer within and between cells.
The Chemistry of Life has now held its own as a clear and authoritative introductory text for almost a quarter of a century. This completely revised and updated third edition retains the same structure but includes major new chapters on the immune system and the extraordinary (and controversial) fields opened up by biotechnology and genetic engineering.
ISBN:9780140125320
