为适应新时期高职高专生化与制药专业对学生的能力培养和综合素质的要求，全国高等职业教育化工专业教材编审委员会和化学工业出版社组织全国部分高等院校编写本书。本教材被江苏省教育厅立项为江苏省高等学校精品教材进行建设。全书共分6单元21章，讲述了生物化工的相关知识，及信息检索等内容，每章后都附有单词、短语解释，以及疑难长句注释，课后有练习题和原文的翻译参考。

本书系江苏省精品教材系列，全书共分6单元21章，讲述了生物化工的相关知识，及信息检索等内容，每章后都附有单词、短语解释，以及疑难长句注释，课后有练习题和原文的翻译参考。全书内容涉及面广，具有较强的实用性、可读性和趣味性，可提高读者的学习兴趣，帮助读者尽快掌握专业英语书刊的阅读技巧，了解文献检索及写作知识。

本书可作为高职高专院校各相关专业的教学用书，也可供从事相关工作的人员学习、阅读。

Unit 1 Preface

 Chapter 1 Translation skills

 Chapter 2 Special English word-formation

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Unit 2 Fundamental chemistry

 Chapter 3 Elements and compounds

 Chapter 4 Organic solvent

 Chapter 5 Biochemical reaction

 Reading material

Unit 3 Biochemical engineering

 Chapter 6 Introduction

6.1 The nature of biotechnology

6.2 Historical evolution of biotechnology

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 Chapter 7 Amino acids, peptides, and proteins

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 Chapter 8 Enzymes

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 Chapter 9 Nucleotides and nucleic acids

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 Chapter 10 Fermentation and bioreactor

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 Chapter 11 Downstream processing

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 Chapter 12 Frontiers of biochemical engineering

12.1 Enzyme engineering

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12.2 Genetic engineering

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12.3 The Human Genome Project

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Unit 4 Pharmaceutical engineering

 Chapter 13 Introduction to drugs

13.1 What is a drug

13.2 Drug absorption

13.3 The history of pharmacopoeia

13.4 Good Manufacturing Practices（GMP）

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 Chapter 14 Synthesis of drug

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 Chapter 15 Pharmaceutical production

15.1 Clarification and filtration

15.2 Crystallization and pharmaceutical technology

15.3 Drying

15.4 Mixing

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 Chapter 16 Industrial pharmacy

16.1 Tablets

16.2 Capsules

16.3 Injections

16.4 Packaging

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 Chapter 17 Medicine analysis

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 Chapter18 Modernization of traditional Chinese medicine

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 Chapter 19 Frontiers of pharmaceutical engineering

19.1 Interferon

19.2 Principles of drug design

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Unit 5 Information retrieval

 Chapter 20 Introduction

 Chapter 21 The research process in the cornell university library

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