We happened to use it in most of my classes. I was studying biochemistry, and it's definitely more bio than chemistry, but it does have everything you'd need. In North America it may be one of the most popular textbooks.

But you'll need to look for the books that are being used today because I was in school 15 years ago, and a couple things have occurred since then. RNAi wasn't big when I was in school for instance even though most of the labs knew of it, CRISPR was not even on the horizon (although you can understand how it works from a typical undergrad textbook).