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Biochemistry: The Molecular Basis of Life is an intermediate, one-semester text written for students on degree pathways in Chemistry, Biology and other Health and Life Sciences. Aimed at students with one unit of Organic Chemistry, it focuses on essential biochemical principles that underpin the modern life sciences, and offers the most balanced coverage of chemistry and biology of any text on the market. The text equips students with a complete view of the living state, emphasizes problem solving, and applies biochemical principles to the fields of Health, Agriculture, Engineering and Forensics, to show students the relevance of their learning. McKee and McKee is respected for its balance of biology and chemistry, consistently placing biochemical principles into the context of the physiology of the cell and biomedical applications. The text provides the biological context and student motivation missing from its closest competitor, Horton's Principles of Biochemistry, and full-coverage of chemical mechanisms missing in more biological texts, such as Campbell. Pedagogy includes the very popular and relevant "Biochemistry in Perspective" and "Biochemistry in the Lab" boxes; chapter-opening vignettes; the most in-chapter worked examples and questions of any text; over 1000 end-of-chapter questions; an outstanding art program that is acknowledged as the best set of illustrations available; and a complete supplements package that includes Sapling Learning Online Homework system.