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 | | Biochemistry by Donald Voet ISBN-10: 9780471193500 ISBN-10: 0-471-19350-X ISBN-13: 9780471193500 ISBN-13: 978-0-471-19350-0 Hardcover 2004-03-09 Wiley Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description This comprehensive text thoroughly explains basic biochemical concepts while offering a unified presentation of life and its variation through evolution. Incorporates both classical and current research to illustrate the historical source of much of our biochemical knowledge. Contains a wealth of biochemical applications such as agricultural, pharmaceutical, medical and forensic. "The solutions manual provides in-depth, worked-out solutions for all the end of chapter problems. This manual was prepared by the authors." | ||
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Excellent, detailed coverage...once you know the basics I was first introduced to this book in my 3rd year undergrad biochemistry course (a biochem-for-biochem-majors course). I couldn't stand it! It went into so much detail about every aspect of biochemistry (well above and beyond the scope of the course), but never provided any simple introductions. Advanced material is always appreciated (by me, at least), but not in the required readings, and certainly not when there's no gradual introduction into it! Three years later, I had to take a basic biochem course (with no exemptions allowed...argh), and the required book was the Berg, Stryer, etc. textbook. That book provides a great low-level introduction. Being the kind of person that likes to know a lot about a topic and actually UNDERSTAND material as opposed to memorising it, I started referring to my old Voet & Voet text again. What a difference! When I read sections of V&V with a basic understanding of the concept, it was very informative, helpful and INTERESTING! I highly recommend V&V for everyone who wants to UNDERSTAND (not memorise) biochemistry, but absolutely not as the main textbook for an intro course. It's a great supplementary resource for those intro courses, and a fantastic reference afterward, but it's just too complex and in-depth for the beginner, even the beginner chem or biochem major. | ||
Not quantitative There are no quantitative worked examples in any of the chapters! The authors leave it up to you to solve the problems at the end of each chapter, and then consult the answer book: a pedagogical mistake! For you to solve some real-world problems, you can't just rely on the derivations and presentation of their formulae, they need to show how the formulae can be combined and rearranged to solve problems. Great color illustrations and plenty of detail, but not practical. | ||
Bad Worst text ever. The order of the book is not very good and the language is hard to understand. Trying to figure out biochem with just this book will be a feat. If you dont have lecture good luck with this book. I took biochem and actually went to another text because this one was confusing. | ||
soup. vomit. labile? where's the dictionary... A textbook on a straightforward topic made as confusing and labyrinthine as possible. Seems to have been written with colleagues and scholars in mind rather than students - an overly magniloquent vomit of knowledge daring any other to match the comprehensiveness of the text has ultimately resulted in an unnecessarily prolixic information minestrone soup that will even have biochemistry professors spooning twice. [I happen to dislike minestrone soup but for those that yum I will not go so far as to suggest trying it, as it is a considerable amount of money for a bowl of soup, but I will ask you to contact Voet and Voet and shower them with compliments on how au fait this publication sounded so that the next time they write a textbook they can focus on making it more digestible for the biochemistry Nh.D. (No-have degree)] - The illustrations could have easily been more intuitive - Takes more effort than should be necessary to comprehend the language - the material is quite understandable, however. Excerpt: "The bond to [alpha-]C in the plane perpendicular to the PLP pi-orbital system (from X in the illustration) is labile as a consequence of its overlap with the pi system, which permits the broken bond's electron pair to be delocalized over the conjugated molecule." (p.999) Simply put, "The alpha-C - X bond is adaptable because its electrons can be delocalized over the PLP pi-orbital system." | ||
Book arrived in good condition within time limit The book arrived within time limit and in good condition. But most importantly, it saved me over 100 dollars! | ||