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The #1 bestseller for the introductory biochemistry course because it brings clarity and coherence to an often unwieldy discipline, offering a thoroughly updated survey of biochemistry's enduring principles, definitive discoveries, and groundbreaking new advances with each edition.
This new Seventh Edition maintains the qualities that have distinguished the text since Albert Lehninger's original edition-clear writing, careful explanations of difficult concepts, helpful problem-solving support, and insightful communication of contemporary biochemistry's core ideas, new techniques, and pivotal discoveries.

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Contents:

Chapter 1: The Foundations of Biochemistry.- Chapter 2: Water.- Chapter 3: Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins.- Chapter 4: The Three-Dimensional Structure of Proteins.- Chapter 5: Protein Function.- Chapter 6: Enzymes.- Chapter 7: Carbohydrates and Glycobiology.- Chapter 8: Nucleotides and Nucleic Acids.- Chapter 9: DNA-Based Information Technologies.- Chapter 10: Lipids.- Chapter 11: Biological Membranes and Transport.- Chapter 12: Biosignaling.- Chapter 13: Bioenergetics and Biochemical Reaction Types.- Chapter 14: Glycolysis, Gluconeogenesis, and the Pentose Phosphate Pathway.- Chapter 15: Principles of Metabolic Regulation.- Chapter 16: The Citric Acid Cycle.- Chapter 17: Fatty Acid Catabolism.- Chapter 18: Amino Acid Oxidation and the Production of Urea.- Chapter 19: Oxidative Phosphorylation and Photophosphorylation Oxidative Phosphorylation.- Chapter 20: Carbohydrate Biosynthesis in Plants and Bacteria.- Chapter 21: Lipid Biosynthesis.- Chapter 22: Biosynthesis of Amino Acids, Nucleotides, and Related Molecules.- Chapter 23: Hormonal Regulation and Integration of Mammalian Metabolism.- Chapter 24: Genes and Chromosomes.- Chapter 25: DNA Metabolism.- Chapter 26: RNA Metabolism.- Chapter 27: Protein Metabolism.- Chapter 28: Regulation of Gene Expression.