Biochemistry Demystified

I studied the subject some 20 years ago, and needed to get re-acquainted with it for further study purposes.The book is good for this purpose, but is certainly not comprehensive in its coverage of metabolism, the main essence of biochemistry.It should be remembered that most people that study biochemistry are NOT going to be biochemists, as it is a para-medical and para-clinical subject for most disciplines.The book is an adequate re-introduction to the subject, but no better than that.Get hold of Schaums theory and problems in biochemistry after this one.Derek

This is a good summary, but a college chemistry book is more detailed. Yet it fills some gaps to a chemistry course. I would suggest previewing the chapters before purchasing the book to make sure it is the right purchase.

Great book as a refresher...studied nursing over 20 yrs ago...this was a superb refresher and helps my current students, thanks!

Missing some key terms in the defenitions section

As advertised.

It is great. It looks like a new book with very reasonable price. I love it.

As good as they said. Good price for the book

This book looks like it might be an easy read until you encounter error after error, and then you get bogged down double checking the facts that the editors should've done. There was one error on p18, two on p19, and one on p20 that started getting me frustrated because they were back to back to back. I was able to grind through them because I knew the material, but was becoming concerned that if there were mistakes in new material, I would be incorporating incorrect info into my long term memory. That would be worse then never having read the book. I decided to give the book one last chance and jumped ahead to the nucleic acid chapter. This was mostly new material to me, so it was a good test to see if this book was detailed enough to teach me something new where I couldn't fill in the gaps subconciously. My first observation was that half the chapter on nucleic acids was spent on how to make a pyrimidine and a purine, which I don't think is very relevant. Since the chapter was only 20 pages long, I would've expected it to be almost entirely on the biochemistry of RNA and DNA (at a high level view). It didn't matter, I was quickly lost trying to decipher the 11 step uracil monophosphate synthesis diagram, and my two semesters of organic chemistry didn't come to my aid.I gave it two stars for those who already know the material and just need a refresher, and who get some sort of thrill by playing gotcha with the author.

Good as new