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Basic chemistry of life / Milton Toporek.

By: Toporek, Milton, 1920-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: St. Louis : Mosby, 1981Description: xiv, 521 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 080165002X.Subject(s): Biochemistry | Allied health personnelDDC classification: 612.015
Contents:
Unit One Introduction: Overview -- Energy -- Unit Two Inorganic chemistry: Units of measurement -- Matter and atomic structure; radioactivity -- Formulas, valence, chemical equations, gas laws -- Oxygen, hydrogen, oxidation-reduction -- Water -- Solutions, osmosis, dialysis -- Acids, bases, salts -- Ionization, electrolytes, hydrogen ion concentration (pH) -- Unit Three Organic chemistry: General principles of organic chemistry -- Open-chain (aliphatic) organic compounds -- Cyclic (aromatic) organic compounds -- Chemistry of carbohydrates -- Chemistry of lipids -- Chemistry of proteins -- Chemistry of nucleic acids -- Unit Four Biochemistry: Enzymes -- Digestion and absorption -- Introduction to intermediary metabolism, biologic oxidation and bioenergetics -- Carbohydrate metabolism -- Lipid metabolism -- Nucleic acid metabolism -- Protein metabolism -- Blood respiration -- Urine: a product of the kidney -- Water, electrolyte, acid-base balance -- Vitamins -- Hormones -- Biochemical basis of nutrition.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Barcode
General lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 612.015 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00036224
General lending MTU Bishopstown Library Store 612.015 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00036245
Total holds: 0

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Unit One Introduction: Overview -- Energy -- Unit Two Inorganic chemistry: Units of measurement -- Matter and atomic structure; radioactivity -- Formulas, valence, chemical equations, gas laws -- Oxygen, hydrogen, oxidation-reduction -- Water -- Solutions, osmosis, dialysis -- Acids, bases, salts -- Ionization, electrolytes, hydrogen ion concentration (pH) -- Unit Three Organic chemistry: General principles of organic chemistry -- Open-chain (aliphatic) organic compounds -- Cyclic (aromatic) organic compounds -- Chemistry of carbohydrates -- Chemistry of lipids -- Chemistry of proteins -- Chemistry of nucleic acids -- Unit Four Biochemistry: Enzymes -- Digestion and absorption -- Introduction to intermediary metabolism, biologic oxidation and bioenergetics -- Carbohydrate metabolism -- Lipid metabolism -- Nucleic acid metabolism -- Protein metabolism -- Blood respiration -- Urine: a product of the kidney -- Water, electrolyte, acid-base balance -- Vitamins -- Hormones -- Biochemical basis of nutrition.