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UNIT 1 Science and Biochemistry

  

Section 1 Characteristics of Life

 

     Section 1.1

·         Organization

·         Energy Use and Metabolism

·         Maintenance of Internal Constancy

·         Reproduction, Growth, and Development

·         Irritability, Adaptation and Natural Selection

 

http://mimi.essortment.com/characteristics_rbrc.htm

http://www.barringtonhigh.org/Parkert/Powerpoint/Introduction/Characteristics%20of%20Life%20A_P_files/frame.htm#slide0001.htm

 

 

     Section 1.2

·         Domains and Kingdoms

·         Evolution

 

http://waynesword.palomar.edu/trfeb98.htm

http://www.borg.com/~lubehawk/kingdms.htm

 

 

     Section 1.3

·         Theories about Nature

·         Designing Experiments

·         Limitations of Scientific Inquiry

 

http://teacher.nsrl.rochester.edu/phy_labs/AppendixE/AppendixE.html

http://koning.ecsu.ctstateu.edu/Plants_Human/scimeth.html

 

 

Section 2 - Biochemistry

 

     Section 2.1

·         Elements

·         Atoms

·         Molecules

·         Chemical Bonds

 

http://www.chemistry.mcmaster.ca/faculty/bader/aim/

http://www.webelements.com/

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/chemical/bond.html

 

 

 

    

 

 

Section 2.2 - Characteristics of Water

·         Solutions

·         Acids and Bases

·         Water and Temperature

 

http://collections.ic.gc.ca/abnature/environmental/water_biological_characteristics.htm

http://darwin.wcupa.edu:16080/~biology/knabb/lecture%202/sld012.htm

 

 

     Section 2.3 - Organic Molecules

·         Carbohydrates

·         Lipids

·         Proteins

·         Nucleic Acids

 

http://www.indstate.edu/thcme/mwking/carbohydrates.html

http://www.indstate.edu/thcme/mwking/lipids.html

http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/P/Proteins.html

http://www.indstate.edu/thcme/mwking/nucleic-acids.html

 

 

 

                                  

 

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