BIOL 005A Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Hydrogen Bond, Carbon Cycle, Double Bond

• School: UC Riverside
• Department: Biology
• Course: BIOL 005A
• Professor: Kaloshian Isgouhi, Mauck Kerry

Document Summary

Biol 005a lecture 3 - carbon and functional groups. Explain the properties of carbon that allow it to serve as a building block for biomolecules. Discuss the role of hydrocarbons in biomacromolecules. Describe the importance of functional groups to organic molecules. Carbon enters the biosphere through plants and other photosynthetic organisms. Plants use solar energy to transform co2 into the molecules of life. Can form covalent bonds with up to four atoms. Carbon skeletons can be linear, branched, or circular. The study of carbon-containing compounds is called organic chemistry . Carbon can form molecules that are large, complex, and varied. Hydrogen (h), oxygen (o), nitrogen (n), sulfur (s), phosphorus. Four ways that carbon skeletons can vary: (p). Water mixture in the sea was heated and vapor entered the. The atmosphere contained a mixture of hydrogen gas (h2), methane (ch4), ammonia (nh3) and water vapor. A condenser cooled the atmosphere, raining water and dissolved molecules into the sea flask.