Continuing Garrett and Grisham's innovative conceptual and organizing framework, "Essential Questions," BIOCHEMISTRY guides students through course concepts in a way that reveals the beauty and usefulness of biochemistry in the everyday world.The book's balanced presentation has been streamlined for increased clarity and readability--and to make it more interesting to visual learners, this edition also includes new photos and illustrations that show the subject matter consistently throughout the text. New end-of-chapter problems, MCAT practice questions, and the unparalleled text/media integration with the power of CengageNOW round out this exceptional package, giving students the tools they need to master course concepts and develop critical problem-solving skills they can draw upon long after the course ends.
Like most biochemistry textbooks, this one is not well written, even if its authors are experts in biochemistry. Inconsistent wording, e.g., base-pair is used most of the time, but some parts of the text use bp to refer to base-pair without clarification. Some complicated concepts could be easily explained by more graphical illustrations, but the authors choose to rely on narration and only give very shallow graphical illustrations, e.g., base pairs' twisting.
Very detailed, thorough textbook with excellent diagrams. However, the writing is laborious, and overcomplicated. Additionally, many of the detailed steps are explained before the diagrams of the pathways are shown. Could easily be simplified and the sequences of text altered.