pt. 1. Setting the stage: basic biochemistry concepts -- Biochemistry: What you need to know and why -- Seems so basic: Water chemistry and pH -- Fun with carbon: Organic chemistry -- pt. II. The meat of biochemistry: proteins -- Amino acids: The building blocks of protein -- Protein structure and function -- Enzyme kinetics: Getting there faster -- pt. III. Carbohydrates, lipids, nucleic acids, and more, oh my -- What we crave: Carbohydrates -- Lipids and membranes -- Nucleic acids and the code of life -- Vitamins: Both simple and complex -- Hormones: The body's messengers -- pt. IV. Bioenergetics and pathways -- Life and energy -- ATP: The body's monetary system -- Smelly biochemistry: Nitrogen in biological systems -- pt. V. Genetics: why we are what we are -- Photocopying DNA -- Transcribe this! RNA transcription -- Translation: Protein synthesis -- pt. VI. The part of tens -- Ten great applications of biochemistry -- Ten biochemistry careers.