Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice CONTENIDO: Molecular components of cells. The facts of life: Chemistry is the logic of biological phenomena -- Water: the medium of life -- Thermodynamics of biological systems -- Amino acids and the peptide bond -- Proteins: Their primary structure and biological functions -- Proteins: secondary, tertiary, and quaternary structure -- Carbohydrates and the glycoconjugates of cell surfaces -- Lipids -- Membranes and membrane transport -- Nucleotides and nucleic acids -- Structure of nucleic acids -- Recombinant DNA: cloning and creation of chimeric genes -- Protein dynamics. Enzymes - kinetics and specificity -- Mechanisms of enzime action -- Enzyme regulation -- Molecular motor -- Metabolism and its regulation. Metabolism: an overview -- Glycolysis -- The tricarboxylic acid cycle -- Electron transport and oxidative phosphorylation --Phostosynthesis -- Gluconeogenesis, Glycogen metabolism, and the pentose phosphate pathway -- Fatty acid catabolism -- Lipid Biosynthesis -- Nitrogen Acquisition and amino acid metabolism -- Systhesis and degradation of nucleotides -- Metabolic integration and organ specialization -- Information transfer. DNA metabolism: replication, recombination, and repair -- Transcription and the regulation of gene expression -- Protein synthesis -- Completing the protein life cycle: folding, processing and degradation -- The reception and transmission of extracellular information.
