Editor Reviews:

Product Description:
This textbook is intended for a diverse audience that ranges from chemistry majors to students in any of the life sciences. The logical organization (discussion of molecular structure immediately followed by the role it plays in metabolism) leads students through the complex world of biochemistry while an impressive art program helps to guide them through up-to-date concepts. Of special interest are the new Biochemical Methods boxes in the text, PowerPoint slides for instructors, and animated and annotated Chime structures of biomolecules in the OLC.

Rating : - Full of errors
I found that this book has great content and purpose and is especially useful when accompanied with the study guide. However, the book is full of errors in the questions ranging from typos such as saying "Ribose-5-phosphate" instead of "Ribulose-5-phospate" to errors such as using the wrong term. For example in chapter 9, question 10, the question refers to a molecule to the right as "riboflavin" when it turn, it is actually "flavin mononucleotide." These errors can be very costly if a student is still learning biochemistry and hasn't mastered the concepts yet.

Overall, the content of the chapters seems to be great and full of useful information with minimal errors. The questions at the end of the chapter and the answers in the study guide are where most of the errors occur. I also found that some of the answers to the questions either did not answer the question directly or spent a lot of time explaining extra concepts outside the scope of the question that were not needed and only confuse you more.

The textbook does do a good job of teaching basic, fundamental knowledge. You just have to really know your concepts to get through the questions and catch the errors. The diagrams are pretty simplistic as well, and present the concepts well. Thanks to the content of the chapters and easy to read diagrams, this book survives with three stars.