The manga guide to biochemistry /
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San Francisco, CA : [Tokyo] :
No Starch Press ; Ohmsha,
2011
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| Edition: | English ed. |
| Series: | Manga guide series.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. What happens inside your body?
- Cell structure
- What happens inside a cell?
- Protein synthesis
- Metabolism
- Energy production
- Photosynthesis
- A cell is the location of many chemical reactions
- Fundamental biochemistry knowledge
- Carbon
- Chemical bonds
- Biopolymers
- Enzymes
- Oxidation-reduction
- Respiration
- Metabolism
- 2. Photosynthesis and respiration
- Ecosystems and cycles
- Ecosystems and the biogeochemical cycle
- Carbon cycle
- Let's talk photosynthesis
- Importance of plants
- Chloroplast structure
- Photosynthesis : the photophosphorylation reaction
- Photosynthesis : carbon dioxide fixation
- Respiration
- What is a carbohydrate?
- Saccharides and the "-ose" suffix
- Why do monosaccharides take a cyclic structure?
- Why do we need to breathe?
- Glucose decomposition by glycolysis
- Citric acid cycle (TCA cycle)
- Electrons transport chain
- ATP : the common currency of energy
- Types of monosaccharides
- Aldoses and ketoses
- Pyranose and furanose
- D-form and L-form
- What is CoA?
- 3. Biochemistry in our everyday lives
- Lipids and cholesterol
- Fatty acids
- Cholesterol is a type of steroid
- Lipoproteins
- Arteriosclerosis
- Biochemistry of obesity : Why is fat stored?
- Ingested and expended energy
- Saccharides
- What is blood type?
- Why does fruit get sweeter as it ripens?
- Types of sugar in fruit
- Monosaccharides, oligosaccharides and polysaccharides
- Why are Mochi rice cakes springy?
- Differences between normal rice and Moochi rice
- Difference between amylose and amylopectin
- 4. Enzymes are the keys to chemical reactions. Enzymes and proteins
- An enzyme's job
- Substrates and enzymes
- Transferases
- Glucosyltransferase determines blood type
- Hydrolases
- Using graphs to understand enzymes
- Activation energy
- Maximum reaction rate
- Michaelis-Menten equation and the Michaelis constant
- Enzymes and inhibitors
- Allosteric enzymes
- 5. Molecular biology and the biochemistry of nucleic acids
- What is nucleic acid?
- Nuclein
- Nucleic acid and nucleotides
- Base complementarity and DNA structure
- DNA replication and the enzyme DNA polymerase
- RNA structure
- Nucleic acid and genes
- DNA
- RNA
- Ribozymes
- Biochemistry and molecular biology
- Origin of the cell
- Conducting biochemistry experiments
- Column chromatography
- Electrophoresis and a Western blot
- Lectin blotting
- Centrifugation
- Enzyme reaction measurement
- Epilogue.
