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Donald Voet (Author), Judith G. Voet (Author)
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047119350X 978-0471193500 March 9, 2004 3
Biochemistry 3rd edition DONALD VOET, University of Pennsylvania, USA and JUDITH G. VOET, Swarthmore College, USA Biochemistry is a modern classic that has been thoroughly revised. Don and Judy Voet explain 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.
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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. This edition has been updated to reflect the enormous advances in molecular and protein structure. Features increased emphasis on human disease, more end-of-chapter problems and extensive use of molecular biological techniques. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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  • Hardcover: 1616 pages
  • Publisher: Wiley; 3 edition (March 9, 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 047119350X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0471193500
  • Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 2.4 x 11.1 inches
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  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (53 customer reviews)
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2.0 out of 5 stars What do you want this for?, November 26, 2005
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Before you buy this book, you must carefully ask yourself what purpose you intend to use this for. As a textbook it is horrible, but will serve you well as reference material. V&V was inflicted upon me by my professor in my single-semester graduate level biochemistry course (I am a first year student working towards a PhD in Molecular Biology). The course was structured so that we were tested once a month on about 8-12 chapters of this book. Therefore, I did not have much time to dwell for very long on each chapter and was tested in significantly less detail than what was presented in the text. The problem, as others have stated, was that the author goes into excruciating detail for each component of the chapter and then fails to state exactly why it is important. For example, the text will spend two pages describing exactly how many beta sheets and alpha helixes an enzyme has, its folding substructures, the critical amino acid residues in the active sites, and what substrate analogs researchers used to elucidate the enzyme's function. Somewhere buried in that mess will be a few words on why the enzyme is related or important to the topic of the chapter. For most people, you will never ever need to know 95% of this material unless you are personally involved in research directly related to this topic. Otherwise you would be a complete fool to waste so much time memorizing the intimate details of all the proteins and molecules. Unfortunately with this text, the nitty-gritty details are not placed aside from the main points so that you can skip over them when need be. Instead you are forced to wade through the endless morass of minutia to find the few hidden gems of general principles.
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37 of 40 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Biochemistry text on the market, June 27, 2002
This review is from: Biochemistry (Hardcover)
This book covers much of the same material as Stryer with about twice the detail and vastly better illustrations. V&V's massive advantage is a detailed methods chapter that lets you understand how the advances in biology have been made, and why science is so slow and frustrating. If you're serious about understanding biological chemistry (as distinct from understanding how the cell works, in which case you'll want a book on molecular cell biology), look no further than this. The third edition will be coming out in 2002, at about the same time as the sixth edition of Stryer. Expect V&V to be more up-to-date, better illustrated and less verbose than its competition (although obviously I haven't seen either yet). If you're a medical student, try Devlin's Biochemistry with clinical correlations. If you want an integrated cell biology/biochemistry text, try Garrett and Grisham, including part 5.
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23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Big picture lost in the details, July 9, 2001
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V&V does a great job on details, however, it sadly misses the big picture. The meta and intuitive material is indeed there, but so buried as to be nearly useless. The reader has difficulty reconstructing a coherent whole.

To profit from V&V, you need either an unusually good prof, or a companion book such as Lehninger, Mathews, or Stryer. Read a chapter from the simpler text, then fill in the finer points with V&V. This learning model has worked very well for me.

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gets that life as we know it arose but once (if life arose more than once, the other forms must have rapidly died out, possibly because they were "eaten" by the present form). Thus, by comparing the corresponding genetic messages of a wide variety of modern organisms it may be possible to derive reasonable models of the primordial messages from which they have descended. Read the first page
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contact with the aqueous solvent, viewing stereo drawings, actin cleft, foldback structures, glutathione reductase reaction, exact twofold axis, redox loop mechanism, subunit arms, exergonic hydrolysis, genetic code dictionary, coat protein subunits, duplex axis, organ specialization, succinyl phosphate, lysozyme catalysis, citrate synthase reaction, enzyme nucleophile, enzymatic binding site, equilibrium density gradient ultracentrifugation, lac enzymes, lysozyme reaction, bisubstrate reactions, bisubstrate mechanisms, chemically identical subunits, flavin ring
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