BIO 1305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Unified Atomic Mass Unit, Atomic Nucleus, Atomic Mass

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Matter: anything that takes up space and has mass. Ex: rocks, metals, oils, gases, and living organisms. Elements: a substance that cannot be broken down to other substances by a chemical reactions. Compound: substance consisting of two or more di erent elements combined in a. Essential elements: organisms needs 20-25% out of the 92 natural elements to live a healthy life and reproduce. Humans need 25 elements but plants only need 17. Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, and nitrogen make up approximately 96% of living matter. Calcium, phosphorus, potassium, sulfur and a few other elements account for for most of the remaining 4%. Trace elements: are required by an organism in only minute quantities. Atoms: the smallest unit of matter that still retains the properties of an element. Subatomic particles: atoms are composed of even smaller parts. Protons and neutrons are packed together tightly in a dense core, or atomic nucleus. Atomic nucleus: at the center of an atom.

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