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Essentials of General, Organic, and Biochemistry
Third Edition| ©2019 Denise Guinn
Guinn’s, Essentials of General, Organic and Biochemistry uses health and medicine as the framework for learning the fundamentals of chemistry in this student-centered one-semester text. The newly revised 3rd edition focuses on core concepts and necessary math skill...
Guinn’s, Essentials of General, Organic and Biochemistry uses health and medicine as the framework for learning the fundamentals of chemistry in this student-centered one-semester text. The newly revised 3rd edition focuses on core concepts and necessary math skills, and features a revamped organization to align with traditional course organization and shorter, more condensed chapters. Easily digestible content and medical applications help reduce student anxiety and make chemistry meaningful for students preparing for future careers in nursing and other allied health professions.
Essentials of General, Organic and Biochemistry is now supported in Achieve, Macmillan’s new online learning platform. Achieve is the culmination of years of development work put toward creating the most powerful online learning tool for chemistry students. Achieve includes an interactive eBook as well as our renowned assessments and new tutorial questions. Students will be able to focus their study with adaptive quizzing and more clearly see the relevance of chemistry through case studies.
Achieve features a flexible suite of resources to support learning core concepts, visualization, problem-solving, and assessment. This powerful platform houses all student and instructor resources. You can assign what you want or download resources as you need. Powerful analytics and quick insights in Achieve pair with exceptional content to provide an unrivaled learning and teaching experience.
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The essential chemistry for health careers and everyday life.
Guinn’s, Essentials of General, Organic and Biochemistry uses health and medicine as the framework for learning the fundamentals of chemistry in this student-centered one-semester text. The newly revised 3rd edition focuses on core concepts and necessary math skills, and features a revamped organization to align with traditional course organization and shorter, more condensed chapters. Easily digestible content and medical applications help reduce student anxiety and make chemistry meaningful for students preparing for future careers in nursing and other allied health professions.
Essentials of General, Organic and Biochemistry is now supported in Achieve, Macmillan’s new online learning platform. Achieve is the culmination of years of development work put toward creating the most powerful online learning tool for chemistry students. Achieve includes an interactive eBook as well as our renowned assessments and new tutorial questions. Students will be able to focus their study with adaptive quizzing and more clearly see the relevance of chemistry through case studies.
Achieve features a flexible suite of resources to support learning core concepts, visualization, problem-solving, and assessment. This powerful platform houses all student and instructor resources. You can assign what you want or download resources as you need. Powerful analytics and quick insights in Achieve pair with exceptional content to provide an unrivaled learning and teaching experience.
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Essentials of General, Organic and Biochemistry is now supported in Achieve, Macmillan’s new online learning platform. Achieve is the culmination of years of development work put toward creating the most powerful online learning tool for chemistry students. Achieve includes an interactive eBook as well as our renowned assessments and new tutorial questions. Students will be able to focus their study with adaptive quizzing and more clearly see the relevance of chemistry through case studies.
Achieve features a flexible suite of resources to support learning core concepts, visualization, problem-solving, and assessment. This powerful platform houses all student and instructor resources. You can assign what you want or download resources as you need. Powerful analytics and quick insights in Achieve pair with exceptional content to provide an unrivaled learning and teaching experience.
Achieve features:
- Achieve combines acclaimed automatically graded online homework with a powerful e-book and an extensive suite of engaging multimedia learning resources. Problems feature hints for when students get stuck, answer-specific feedback to help them learn from their mistakes, and solutions to reinforce what they’ve learned.
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- LearningCurve: Adaptive quizzing to get students prepared for class.
- Tutorial-style questions that guide students through complex problem-solving providing feedback and solutions with each step so students see how to approach questions and remediate mistakes along the way.
- Case Studies allow students to apply what they learned to more challenging problems, connect the chemistry they are learning to medical topics, and provide instructors with tools for active learning.
Guinn, Essentials of General, Organic and Biochemistry, 3e provides students with the essential chemistry they need for health careers and everyday life.
Relevant to health and medicine:
- Chemistry in Medicine: A Chemistry in Medicine feature concludes each chapter by providing an in-depth look at how the chemical principles described in the chapter can be directly applied to a problem or issue in healthcare.
- Concepts in Context: Because context and connection are crucial to motivation and learning chemistry, each chapter opens in the form of a short, practical, and real-life example of a health-related topic connected to the concepts in the chapter. These stories immediately immerse the student in a high-interest topic related to health and medicine.
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- Guidelines: Step-by-step instructions, such as naming organic compounds, can be used as both explanations and a quick reference when doing homework or other exercises. They are clearly set off in the text to emphasize their importance and to help students find them easily.
- Worked problem solving
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- LearningCurve adaptive quizzing
- Case Studies
- Tutorial questions
- Automatically graded homework problems with hints, targeted feedback and detialed solutions
- VitalSource e-Book
New to This Edition
Achieve, Macmillan’s new online learning platform. Achieve is the culmination of years of development work put toward creating the most powerful online learning tool for chemistry students. Achieve includes an interactive eBook as well as our renowned assessments and new tutorial questions. Students will be able to focus their study with adaptive quizzing and more clearly see the relevance of chemistry through case studies. Instructors can assign or download instructor resources and take advantage of powerful analytics and quick insights to inform teaching.
NEW TO THIS EDITION
The new third edition of Guinn, Essentials of General, Organic and Biochemistry includes:
- Revised organization covering general, organic, and biochemistry topics chronologically rather than dispersed throughout the text.
- Shorter, more digestible chapters.
- New text features: Core Concepts and Math Tips
- Achieve platform with VitalSource e-Book, multimedia assets and study tools as well as powerful insights and analytics.
- LearningCurve adaptive quizzing tied to every chapter
- Case studies related to real-world applications, especially medical applications, in two formats: in-class worksheets and digitally-based problems in Achieve.

Essentials of General, Organic, and Biochemistry
Third Edition| ©2019
Denise Guinn
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Essentials of General, Organic, and Biochemistry
Third Edition| 2019
Denise Guinn
Table of Contents
1. Matter, Energy, and Measurement2. Atomic Structure and Radioisotopes
3. Ionic and Covalent Compounds
4. Molecular Geometry, Polarity, and Intermolecular
Forces of Attraction
5. Chemical Quantities and Introduction to Reactions
6. Chemical Reactions: Energy, Rates, and Equilibrium
7. Changes of State and Gas Laws
8. Mixtures, Solution Concentrations, and Diffusion
9. Acids and Bases, pH, and Buffers
10. Introduction to Organic Chemistry:
Hydrocarbon Structure
11. Alcohols, Phenols, Thiols, Ethers, and Amines
12. The Carbonyl Containing Functional Groups
13. The Common Organic Reactions in Biochemistry
14. Carbohydrates: Structure and Function
15. Lipids: Structure and Function
16. Proteins: Structure and Function
17. Nucleotides and Nucleic Acids
18. Energy and Metabolism

Essentials of General, Organic, and Biochemistry
Third Edition| 2019
Denise Guinn
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Denise Guinn
She has two adult sons, Charles and Scott, who also assisted in the revision of the 2nd and 3rd editions. She currently resides in Nyack, New York with her dog, Puck, where she enjoys kayaking on the Hudson river in her spare time.

Essentials of General, Organic, and Biochemistry
Third Edition| 2019
Denise Guinn
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Third Edition| 2019
Denise Guinn
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