BIO 150 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Stanley Miller, Electron Shell, Organic Compound

• School: Quinnipiac University
• Department: Biology
• Course: BIO 150
• Professor: Linda Iadarola;

Document Summary

Chapter 4: carbon and the molecular diversity of life. Concept 4. 1: organic chemistry is the study of carbon compounds. Organic chemistry: the study of compounds containing carbon, said to be organic. Friedrich wohler- tried to make an inorganic salt, ammonium cyanate, by mixing solutions of ammonium ions (nh4. Wohler was astonished to find that instead he had made urea, an organic compound present in the urine of animals. Organic chemistry was redefined as the study of carbon compounds, regardless of the origin. Organic compounds range from simple molecules, such as methane (ch4), to colossal ones, such as proteins, with thousands of atoms. Organic molecules and the origin of life and earth. Stanley miller- helped bring the abiotic synthesis of organic compounds into the context of evolution. From his results, miller concluded that complex organic molecules could arise spontaneously under conditions thought at that time to have existed on the early earth.