1. Biochemistry and the Language of Chemistry2. The Chemical Foundation of Life: Weak Interactions in an Aqueous Environment3. The Energetics of Life4. Nucleic Acids5. Introduction to Proteins: The Primary Level of Protein Structure6. The Three-Dimensional Structure of Proteins7. Protein Function and Evolution8. Enzymes: Biological Catalysts9. Carbohydrates: Sugars, Saccharides, Glycans10. Lipids, Membranes, and Cellular Transport11. Chemical Logic of Metabolism12. Carbohydrate Metabolism: Glycolysis, Gluconeogenesis, Glycogen Metabolism, and the Pentose Phosphate Pathway13. The Citric Acid Cycle14. Electron Transport, Oxidative Phosphorylation, and Oxygen Metabolism15. Photosynthesis16. Lipid Metabolism17. Interorgan and Intracellular Coordination of Energy Metabolism in Vertebrates18. Amino Acid and Nitrogen Metabolism19. Nucleotide Metabolism20. Mechanisms of Signal Transduction21. Genes, Genomes, and Chromosomes22. DNA Replication23. DNA Repair, Recombination, and Rearrangement24. Transcription and Post-transcriptional Processing25. Information Decoding: Translation and Post-translational Protein Processing26. Regulation of Gene Expression