Conceptual Insights

The Conceptual Insights Tutorials were written by Neil D. Clarke of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and are identified in your textbook with a Media Icon.

Conceptual Insights - Use these interactive Flash animations to help build on your understanding of key biochemical principles and concepts covered in Biochemistry, 5e, from the energetics that shape and drive a metabolic pathway to what sequencing analysis reveals about evolutionary relationships among molecules.

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Chapter 7: Sequence Analysis

Chapter 8: Steady-State Enzyme Kinetics

Chapter 9: Pre-Steady State Enzyme Kinetics

Chapter 10: Cooperative Binding and Kinetics

Chapter 14: Energetic Coupling

Chapter 16: Energetics of Glucose Metabolism

Chapter 18: Energy Transformations in Oxidative Phosphorylation

Chapter 18: ATP Syntase as a Motor Protein - by the Yoshida & Hisabori Lab

Chapter 22: Overview of Carbohydrate and Fatty Acid Metabolism

Chapter 32: Signal Pathways: Response and Recovery


What People Are Saying About the Conceptual Insights:

"I think these sections were GREAT! The glucose metabolism section would be a great tutorial to help students further understand key concepts, to integrate concepts (e.g. the reactions of a pathway and the energetics and the comparison with other pathways. Signal transduction is especially confusing to students-especially the G-protein story. They are easily overwhelmed with the complex series of events that occur, the jargon, and how all the systems are inter-related. I really liked the Chapter 32 exercises, graphics, animations, and comparisons that help to clarify a very complex, but incredibly important, story."
- Diane W. Husic, Ph.D., East Stroudsburg University

"The content was excellent and more than detailed enough. This is an effective learning tool, particularly for complex biological reactions. I liked this approach a lot."
- Sidney R. Kushner, University of Georgia