Synopsis

The first year of MBBS has become an increasingly tough year. As we experienced ourselves with anatomy, physiology and biochemistry covered during first year, biochemistry tends to receive the least attention by most of the students. At that point of time, we always felt a need for a comprehensive and examination-oriented preparatory manual for biochemistry. It is with great pleasure and satisfaction we are presenting GENOSYS–Exam Preparatory Manual for Undergraduates—Biochemistry. This book is a yield of notes with the information gathered from various standard textbooks. Biochemistry is a highly volatile subject. Most of the standard textbooks available are too vast and inconclusive to study. It becomes a herculean task for most of them to study the entire syllabus or even revise the same just before the examination and what matters more than hard work is smart work. This is when GENOSYS comes to the rescue of the students. We hope that this book will help the students to perfect their examination preparation. It is something we wished to be available for us when we were in the MBBS first year. For any subject, there is no easy way out; it has to be learnt in depth to understand. A concerted effort has been made to make this process an easy affair with lucid language, illustrations, flow charts and tables. Clinical correlations are incorporated at the end of appropriate topics. This will be extremely useful in developing interest of the students in the subject. Practicals are covered in a systematic manner. We have also included viva voce, important topics, multiple choice questions and a separate chapter on biochemical pathways for better understanding.