文档介绍：BASIC CONCEPTS IN
BIOCHEMISTRY
A STUDENT'S SURVIVAL GUIDE
Second Edition
HIRAM F. GILBERT, .
Professor of Biochemistry
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas
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• P R O L O G U E •
Basic Concepts in Biochemistry: A Student’s Survival Guide is not a con-
ventional book: It is not a review book or a textbook or a problem book.
It is a book that offers help in two different ways—help in understanding
the concepts of biochemistry and help anizing your attack on the
subject and minimizing the subject’s attack on you.
This book presents what are often viewed as the more difficult con-
cepts in an introductory biochemistry course and describes them in
enough detail and in simple enough language to make them understand-
able. We surveyed first- and second-year medical students at a national
student meeting asking them to list, in order, the parts of biochemistry
they found most difficult to understand. T