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The most-up-to-date book on the market, gives readers the biochemistry background needed to succeed in medical school. Contains the latest case studies, discussions of biochemical diseases, clinical information, the fundamentals of biochemistry, and prevalent medical conditions. Concise and comprehensive, it is the perfect textbook for the USMLE review. Biochemistry is the study of the chemical processes in living organisms. It deals with the structure and function of cellular components such as proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, nucleic acids and other biomolecules. Although there are a vast number of different biomolecules many are complex and large molecules (called polymers) that are composed of similar repeating subunits (called monomers). Each class of polymeric biomolecule has a different set of subunit types. Biochemistry studies the chemical properties of important biological molecules, like proteins, in particular the chemistry of enzyme-catalyzed reactions.