I want to learn biochemistry so I can reason about stuff that goes on in the body! I’ve started Lehninger’s Principles of Biochemistry and I mostly get it, but some of the stuff it assumes (e.g. covalent vs. noncovalent bonds) I’m not familiar with.
If covalent vs. noncovalent bonds are something you’re not familiar with, it sounds like you’d benefit from reading the chapter(s) on chemical bonding (every gen chem textbook should have one). I’d also infer from that that you won’t have much of a background in thermodynamics, which rears its head when you try to understand the energy-storing and energy-releasing reactions of metabolism.
That’s right, I don’t—I was talking to a friend about vaccines expiring and he said “things want to be in a low energy state”, which sounded like the kind of thing people say a lot and is probably right, but I didn’t, like, feel it.
I want to learn biochemistry so I can reason about stuff that goes on in the body! I’ve started Lehninger’s Principles of Biochemistry and I mostly get it, but some of the stuff it assumes (e.g. covalent vs. noncovalent bonds) I’m not familiar with.
If covalent vs. noncovalent bonds are something you’re not familiar with, it sounds like you’d benefit from reading the chapter(s) on chemical bonding (every gen chem textbook should have one). I’d also infer from that that you won’t have much of a background in thermodynamics, which rears its head when you try to understand the energy-storing and energy-releasing reactions of metabolism.
That’s right, I don’t—I was talking to a friend about vaccines expiring and he said “things want to be in a low energy state”, which sounded like the kind of thing people say a lot and is probably right, but I didn’t, like, feel it.
Thanks for your recommendations!