The best molecular biology textbook ever
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This is a big book dealing with molecular biology in considerable detail. It is organised in 24 chapters subdivided in small paragraphs each one dealing with a particular problem in molecular biology. The book covers the basics first and then deals with more specific matters like immunology, cancer, development, etc all seen from the molecular biologist point of view. Although the approach is purely mechanistic it uses a clear evolutionary orientation, well explained at the beginning of the book, that helps to give a dynamic framework to the whole subject. This is not a book to be read in only a few weeks but roughly a year's time, given the detail and amount of material exposed.
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This is the best book that you can read for USMLE step 1. It is very easy to read, funny, and complete. You cannot miss anything, because you will learn everything using association method (mnemonics, stories, pictures). It also has vey good tables at the end of each chapter to review microorganisms. I definitely recommend it to everybody taking step 1. Who can forget ciprofloxacin mechanism of action after reading the story about "flocks" of sinners "gyrating" their hips in a party?!! (DNA Gyrase).
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I am a Medical Laboratory Technician and know how bad many science textbooks can be. At long last, I have found it: This is the first Microbiology textbook that I would heartily recommend for MLT students. It is nearly everything a good Micro textbook should be (at least for MLT students). It is easy to understand and thorough but concise. I have found several other Micro textbooks that were easy to understand, but all of them were lacking in information. This one had what I needed, especially with regard to identifying organisms, which is the one area many books are lacking. The book is broken up into very helpful sections and it's easy to find what you need. It has charts, lists, almost everything you'd want.

There are a few problems that could be corrected in the next edition. It is lacking in pictures of organisms, which admittedly would have driven up the price. But for an MLT student, they can be very helpful. There are some pictures, just no where near as many as I would have hoped. Also, it does not cover parasitology. My college used a completely different textbook for this, so in my case, it wouldn't matter, but it might for some. This publisher does offer a book on parasitology but I have not read it. One other minor issue is that the book really needs some editing. There are numerous places where it seems the author used the wrong word or skipped a word. I did not have trouble understanding the book, however. It was always something simple, not anything important.

I would recommend the book and hope that they fix these issues in the second edition, which it deserves to get.
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I am a bioinformatian and always look for a reference molecular biology book which not only covers a range of topics but also is clear enough for a reader with limited knowledge of molecular biology. This books is exactly the one I was looking for. Even more, it provides a nice introduction to some basic molecular biology techniques. Highly recommend to any one who wants to know more about molecular biology from other backgrounds.
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It is the best science book I've ever studied from. It made chemical reactions VERY clearly understandable and gave answers to my "why" questions. It also offers a great deal of pictures, colorful concepts and also applications of chemicals and reactions in fields like machinery, engineering, biology, medicine etc. which in my opinion makes learning Much More enjoyable (I personally can't read over some pages of white and black pages in one go but I read this graphical book for hours and hours).
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This textbook has put me through my two years of respiratory therapy classes.  I found it in the library and have been using it ever since to study with.  It is to the point and well written.  I like it so much that I plan on buying it for clinical year.  I am hoping that the author decides  to publish a newer edition soon though.  This book covers everything you  will EVER be tested on. Definetly, good to have!
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Superb Superb Superb highly recommended book on Enzymes
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I find this book the best of is kind. This is mainly due to the many details and very good reaction-chemistry. Competing books tend to reduce chemistry to the cartoon level. Biochemistry by Voet & Voet show the  way by their detailed and precise, easy-to-follow reaction chemistry. This  book, is the best choice for students that want to learn biochemistry, and  not just passing exams.
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I strongly recommend this text to any biology student, grad, or professional.  You do not have to be into anatomy.  This book is great as a reference tool.  The illustrations are phenomenal.
4161011
"Fat Albert," as we used to affectionately call this book in undergrad, was yet another of those books teachers told us would be "a good shelf reference book."  It was the main textbook for three of my classes so I reluctantly bought it.  Now, five years later, and in my second year of dental school I still find myself relying on this book to clarify topics covered in classes ranging from Pharmacology to Physiology, and from Biochemistry to Immunology.  In addition, Fat Albert is my go-to book for my research in a microbiology lab.
  It was, and still is the most engaging and useful of any textbook I have ever bought.
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This book offers detailed insight into the fundamentals of human molecular genetics.  The contents review DNA and chromosome structure and function, cellular development, population genetics, cancer genetics, gene therapy, and a myriad of molecular genetic techniques, applications, and analyses. The figures and illustrations beautifully complement the text with easily understood captions and legends.  The organization of the book is such that the reader can easily find a topic of interest without thumbing through the entire text.  I would highly recommend "Human Molecular Genetics" by Tom Strachan and Andrew P. Read to senior-level college students, graduate students, and researchers.  This is a must-have in the library of any geneticist.
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A classic reference work in Molecular Biology, newly and completely updated.  It has extensive coverage of nearly all core molecular biology techniques and often presents several different means of accomplishing the same goal.  The website is easy to access and the protocols are clearly written.  The website makes it easy to print out protocols.  In addition each protocol contains references to the primary literature supporting its claims.  In the internet version of the protocol the references are hotlinked to PubMed, greatly simplifying access to the underlying references.  I definitely recommend this book to all labs using molecular biology.  Make sure to check out the website!
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Since a lot of people reviewed the seller on this book I thought I would give a review to the book.  I have read some chapters of the 8th edition and so far it is an outstanding bio textbook.  It is not difficult to read yet provides just enough challenge for freshman students. Honestly, I wish I would have taken this course/ with book before Microbiology. It has a lot more informative topics that relate the upper courses such as Microbiology than allied health biology course..  The way the book presents is well organized which helps students to understand main concepts  The book shows related topics on graphs, charts and other visuals, at each end of chapter sections, there are questions reviewing and allowing the student to apply critical thinking skills. Some diagrams and examples given  relate to real-life bio examples. This book gets 4 stars because the first few chapters provide an organized method to learning and building on for the following chapters, it is well outlined text book for a biology ( 4 majors) course.
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I'm a intend chemistry major college student, and I have this in one of my class. This book is really fantastic. It tells about history of molecules and how they affect the world. There are many structural pictures and terms in the book, but since the words that the author used are very simple, it is very easy reading. I'm sure the book makes sense to all even to those who have no chemistry knowledge.
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This is one of few college textbooks I've used that has actually HELPED me learn the course material.  The book takes you from the basics (DNA structure and replication, etc.) all the way through some very complex concepts while never missing a beat.  It's surprisingly readable and student-user-friendly whether you're a beginner or a certifiable gene jockey. My only complaint is the quality of the figures; some of them are very small and thus hard to read, and as one reviewer commented, they are sort of simplistic to the point of not being very thorough.  Having full-color illustrations would be a big plus.

Overall, this book definitely surpasses other bacterial genetics books I've seen as far as readability and organization goes.  It delivers what it promises!
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IT's an amazing book, no doubt. So detailed, not easy its a complicated book but it teaches you everything. I am a premed Biology major. So this right up my alley. If you want to learn detail get this you can't go wrong. regardless of what anatomy class you have
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I have read through several different biochemistry textbooks and none provide the wisdom that this text does. The standard biochem textbooks fail, in my perspective, because they focus on biochemistry as it relates to humans with some plant biochemistry if you're lucky. This text is comprehensive at its look at biochemistry of all life forms no matter how seemingly insignificant, including information on esoteric biochemical cycles and enzymes special to a few species of bacteria you will never hear of again. The author does this to draw a big picture of biochemistry as a chemical link between all life from an evolutionary perspective while also explaining the chemical logic behind biochemistry and why we have the pathways and cycles that we do. The author makes points you will find nowhere else.

This tome is certainly encyclopedic in nature and provides info you won't find on wikipedia or any other book on enzymes, mechanisms, etc and just for that it is worth it if you like that kind of stuff. Consequently, there are some chapters that are more arduous and dry with endless lists of enzymes and there are some chapters that are bursting at the seams with wisdom that you will want to reread several times to catch everything.

This book is for someone who has a strong foundation in chemistry in all of its disciplines in order to glean the most out of the book because the author really digs deep here in order to explain the underpinnings of biochemical phenomena. This book is for someone who is dedicated to and passionate for biochemistry because it requires a lot of investment to read through the book but there is much reward to be gained and much more than just a bunch of facts to be read.