Pearson eText gives students access to the text whenever and wherever they can access the Internet. The eText pages look exactly like the printed text, and include powerful interactive and customization functions. This does not include the actual bound book. Drawing on 20 years of teaching allied health and pre-professional students, authors Laura Frost and Todd Deal have created this innovative new text for your GOB chemistry course.  General, organic, and biological chemistry topics are integrated throughout each chapter in a manner that immediately relates chemistry to your future allied health career and everyday life. General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry: An Integrated Approach introduces the problem-solving skills you will need to assess situations critically on the job. Unique guided-inquiry activities are incorporated after each chapter, guiding you through an exploration of the information to develop chemical concepts, and then apply the developed concept to further examples.

Table of Contents:
NOTE: Each chapter concludes with Summary, Key Terms, Important Equations, Additional Problems, Challenge Problems, Answers to Odd-Numbered Problems, and Looking Ahead. Chapter 1:  Chemistry:  It’s All About “Stuff” 1.1    “Stuff” is Matter 1.2    Gas Behavior — An Introduction to the Behavior of Matter 1.3    Classifying Matter : Mixture or Pure Substance 1.4    Elements, Compounds, and the Periodic Table 1.5    How Matter Changes Chapter 2:  Atoms, Radioactivity, and Ions 2.1    The Atom and Subatomic Particles 2.2    Atomic Number and Mass Number 2.3    Isotopes and Atomic Mass 2.4    Measuring Atoms: The Mole 2.5    Electron Arrangements 2.6    Radioactivity and Radioisotopes 2.7    Nuclear Equations and Radioactive Decay 2.8    Radiation Units and Half-Lives 2.9    Medical Applications for Radioisotopes Chapter 3:  Compounds: Putting Particles Together 3.1    The Octet Rule 3.2    In Search of an Octet Part 1: Ion Formation 3.3    Ionic Compounds — Give and Take 3.4    In Search of an Octet Part 2: Covalent Bonding 3.5    Getting Covalent Compounds into Shape 3.6    Electronegativity and Molecular Polarity Chapter 4:  Introduction to Organic Compounds 4.1    Alkanes — The Simplest Organic Compounds 4.2    Representing the Structures of Organic Compounds 4.3    Fatty Acids – Biological Hydrocarbons 4.4    Families of Organic Compounds — Functional Groups 4.5    Isomerism in Organic Compounds, Part 1 4.6    Isomerism in Organic Compounds, Part 2 Chapter 5:   Carbohydrates:  Life’s Sweet Molecules 5.1    Carbohydrates 5.2    Monosaccharide Structure 5.3    Oxidation and Reduction Reactions 5.4    Ring Formation — The Truth about Monosaccharide Structure 5.5    Disaccharides 5.6    Polysaccharides 5.7    Carbohydrates and Blood Chapter 6: Intermolecular Forces: State Changes, Solubility, and Cell Membranes 6.1    Types of Intermolecular Forces 6.2    Intermolecular Forces and Solubility 6.3  Intermolecular Forces and Changes of State 6.4  Fats, Oils, and Margarine — Solid to Liquid and Back Again 6.5  Intermolecular Forces and the Cell Membrane Chapter 7: Solution Chemistry:  How Sweet is Your Tea? 7.1    Solutions are Mixtures 7.2    Formation of Solutions 7.3    Chemical Equations for Solution Formation — Electrolytes 7.4    Concentration 7.5    Dilution 7.6    Osmosis and Diffusion 7.7    Transport Across Cell Membranes Chapter 8:  Acids, Bases, and the Building Blocks of Life 8.1    Acids and Bases — Definitions 8.2    Strong Acids and Bases 8.3    Chemical Equilibrium 8.4    Weak Acids and Bases 8.5    pH and the pH scale 8.6    pKa  8.7    Amino Acids:  Common Biological Weak Acids 8.8    Buffers:  An Important Property of Weak Acids and Bases     Chapter 9:  Proteins — Amides at Work 9.1 Amino Acids — A second look 9.2    Protein Formation 9.3    Protein Structure 9.4  Protein Denaturation 9.5  Sample Proteins   Chapter 10:  Enzymes — Nature’s Chemists 10.1    Enzymes and Their Substrates 10.2    Enzyme Activity 10.3     Reaction Energetics and Thermodynamics 10.4      Reaction Energy Diagrams 10.5     Activation Energy (Ea) Chapter 11:  Nucleic Acids — Big Molecules with a Big Role 11.1    Components of Nucleic Acids    11.2    Nucleic Acid Formation 11.3      DNA 11.4      RNA and Protein Synthesis 11.5     Putting It Together:  The Genetic Code and Protein Synthesis 11.6     Genetic Mutations 11.7     Viruses 11.8    Recombinant DNA Technology Chapter 12:  Food As Fuel — A Metabolic Overview 12.1  Overview of Metabolism 12.2  Metabolically Relevant Nucleotides 12.3  Digestion — From Fuel Molecules to Building Blocks 12.4  Glycolysis — From Building Blocks to Common Metabolites 12.5  The Citric Acid Cycle — Central Processing    12.6  Electron Transport and Oxidative Phosphorylation 12.7  ATP Production 12.8  Other Fuel Choices