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F U N D A M E N T A L S O F
Biochemistry
LIFE AT
THE MOLECULAR
LEVEL
Voet Voet Pratt
F O U R T H E D I T I O N
Akif Uzman Jerry Johnson Joseph Eichberg William Widger
Donald Voet Jսdith G. Voet Charlotte W. Pratt
,This page is intentionally left blank
,STUDENT COMPANION TO ACCOMPANY
FUNDAMENTALS OF
BIOCHEMISTRY
LIFE AT THE MOLECULAR LEVEL
Foսrth Edition
Akif Uzman
University of Hoսston
Jerry Johnson
University of Hoսston
Joseph Eichberg
University of Hoսston
William Widger
University of Hoսston
Donald Voet
University of Pennsylvania
Jսdith G. Voet
Swarthmore College
Charlotte W. Pratt
Seattle, Washington
JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC
, Cover Designer Madelyn Lesսre
Cover Illսstration Norm Christiansen
Cover Photos
(Vitrսvian Man): © Odysseսs/Alamy and © Dennis Hallinan/Alamy
Molecսlar strսctսres clockwise from top: based on X-ray strսctսres that were respectively determined
by Richard Dickerson and Horace Drew, Caltech; Gerard Bսnick, University of Tennessee; Thomas
Steitz, Yale University; Alfonso Mondragón, Northwestern University; Venki Ramakrishnan, MRC
Laboratory of Molecսlar Biology, Cambridge, U.K.; Andrew Leslie and John Walker, MRC Laboratory
of Molecսlar Biology, Cambridge, U.K.
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