vitamins are necessary for many of the organic reactions
that occur in biological systems.Chapter 26discusses the chemistry of lipids. Lipids are
water-insoluble compounds found in animals and plants.
You will first study the structure and function of different
kinds of lipids. You will then be able to understand such
things as how aspirin prevents inflammation and what caus-
es butter to become rancid. How cholesterol and other ter-
penes are synthesized in nature will be explained as well.Chapter 27covers the chemistry and structures of nu-
cleosides, nucleotides, and nucleic acids (RNA and
DNA). You will see—mechanistically—why ATP is the
universal carrier of chemical energy, how nucleotides are
liked to form nucleic acids, why DNA contains thymines
instead of uracils, and how the genetic messages encoded
in DNA are transcribed into mRNA and then translated
into proteins. Also explained are how the sequence of
bases in DNA is determined and how DNA with specific
base sequences can be synthesized.920
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