Catch Up Chemistry: For the Life and Medical Sciences

by Mitch Fry, Elizabeth Page

  If you are about to study for a degree in the life or medical sciences, you will need to understand some core facts and concepts in chemistry. You do not need to be a budding chemist but you do need to be comfortable with chemical terms and principles.

Catch up Chemistry , second edition, will bring you up to speed with the subject and will lay the foundations of chemistry in those topics that will underpin your studies, such as:
- the nature of atomic structure and molecular bonding; 
- the properties of biological molecules and macromolecules; 
- the gas laws; 
- the special properties of water; 
- thermodynamic concepts in biology; 
- biological transport mechanisms and transporters; 
- understanding reaction mechanisms and kinetics; 
- deriving energy from molecules; 

At every stage the authors remind you of the relevance of this chemistry to your life or medical sciences course - this is not just chemistry for the sake of it. The book also contains a lot of questions (and answers), so that you can test your understanding at any time - it really does get easier with practice!

Genres: Biology

212 pages, Paperback

First published September 5, 2012

Reviews

[Kim]

Good overview, but sometimes difficult to follow. Assumes you have a fair amount of background knowledge in the life sciences.