Drawing on 20 years of teaching allied health and pre-professional students, authors Laura Frost and Todd Deal have created this innovative new text for your GOB chemistry course. General, organic, and biological chemistry topics are integrated throughout each chapter in a manner that immediately relates chemistry to your future allied health career and everyday life.General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry: An Integrated Approach introduces the problem-solving skills you will need to assess situations critically on the job. Unique guided-inquiry activities are incorporated after each chapter, guiding you through an exploration of the information to develop chemical concepts, and then apply the developed concept to further examples.
1. Chemistry: It's All About "Stuff"
2. Atoms and Radioactivity
3. Compounds: Putting Particles Together
4. Introduction to Organic compounds
5. Carbohydrates: Life's Sweet Molecules
6. Intermolecular Forces: State Changes, Solubility, and Cell Membranes
7. Solution Chemistry: How Sweet Is Your Tea?
8. Acids, Bases, and Buffers in the Body
9. Proteins: Amides at Work
10. Enzymes: Nature's Chemists
11. Nucleic Acids: Big Molecules with a Big Role
12. Food as Fuel: A Metabolic Overview