Biochemistry and Molecular Biology: How Life Works

[01] Biochemistry Is the Science of Us [02] Why Water Is Essential for Life [03] Amino Acids: 20 Building Blocks of Life [04] From Peptide Bonds to Protein Structure [05] Protein Folding, Misfolding, and Disorder [06] Hemoglobin Function Follows Structure [07] Enzymes’ Amazing Speed and Specificity [08] Enzyme Regulation in Cells [09] Fatty Acids, Fats, and Other Lipids [10] Sugars: Glucose and the Carbohydrates [11] ATP and Energy Transformations in Cells [12] Breaking Down Sugars and Fatty Acids [13] Metabolism Meets at the Citric Acid Cycle [14] Energy Harvesting in Animals and Plants [15] How Animals Make Carbs and Fats [16] Cholesterol, Membranes, Lipoproteins [17] Metabolic Control during Exercise and Rest [18] How Plants Make Carbs and Other Metabolites [19] Recycling Nitrogen: Amino Acids, Nucleotides [20] Eating, Antioxidants, and the Microbiome [21] Hormones, Stress, and Cell Division [22] Neurotransmitters, the Brain, and Addiction [23] The Biochemistry of Our Senses [24] From Biochemistry to Molecular Biology [25] DNA and RNA: Information in Structure [26] DNA Replication in Bacteria; PCR in the Lab [27] Chromosome Replication, Telomeres, Aging [28] DNA Mismatch and Excision Repair [29] DNA Recombination, Gene Editing, CRISPR [30] Transcribing DNA to RNA [31] Translating RNA into Proteins [32] Protein-Synthesis Controls and Epigenetics [33] Human Genetic Disease and Gene Therapy [34] Cancer Mechanisms and Treatments [35] Biotechnology, Stem Cells, Synthetic Biology [36] Omics: Genomics, Proteomics, Transcriptomics