BIO1011 Lecture Notes - Hydrogen Atom, Hydrogen Bond, Systems Biology

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Lecture 1 - Chemical Elements and Chemical Bonds
Learning outcomes
Understand hierarchy of structural and functional levels in biology
Understand the properties associated with life
Understand the concept of scale in biological systems - from organelle to cell
to tissue to organ
Distinguish between different forms of bonding
Understand the structure and geometry of a water molecule
Explain the relationship between the polar nature of water and its ability to
form hydrogen bonds
Hierarchy
Reductionism → systems biology
Simple → complex, however, it depends on what level you’re looking at it from
Characteristics of living organisms
Reproduction
Nutrition of themselves
Respiration
Homeostasis
Movement
Dna rna proteins
Carbon-based
Metabolism
Growth
What organisms are made of
Major constituents of living matter
-92 natural, 23 in living matter
Elements in organisms
Major: hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, nitrogen
Minor: phosphorus, sulphur, calcium, sodium, potassium
Trace: manganese, iron, cobalt, copper, zinc
Hydrogen atom
Nucleus with 1 proton with +ve chage and one electron with -ve charge
If electron is lost, becomes +ve charged
When the outer orbit is full (the shell) the atom is most stable → so as the
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electron number increases, the stability increases
Why hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen and oxygen
Can form covalent bonds
With themselves, each other and other elements
Covalent bonds are strong bonds
Occurs by atoms sharing electrons with one another
The lightest elements
The lighter the element, the stronger the covalent bonds are (the bonds
are shorter, making them stronger)
Covalent bonds
Not easily broken without special catalysts
(eg. enzymes)
Hydrogen bonds
They are not a bond, more of a weak electrostatic attraction
Oxygen atoms are highly electronegative creating polarity
Can break and reform more easily
Can form between water molecules and other groups of chemicals
Important in
Determining the shape of macromolecules
Surface tension
Capillary action (sucking water up into the organism from a source)
Other ‘weak’ bonds
Ionic bonds
Hydrogen bonds
van der Waals interactions
Hydrophobic interactions
Disulfide bonds
Carbon atom
Autotrophs
Self feeder using inorganic carbon as its source of carbon
Eg plants
Heterotrophs
Other feeders using organic compounds as its source of carbon
Eg animals (also some fungi and other organisms)
Carbon atoms accept/donate 4 electrons to complete an outer shell
Each carbon atom can covalently link with up to 4 other atoms
This gives the wide variety of 3D structures
Carbon vs. silicon
Carbon
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Lecture 1 - chemical elements and chemical bonds. Understand hierarchy of structural and functional levels in biology. Understand the concept of scale in biological systems - from organelle to cell. Understand the structure and geometry of a water molecule. Explain the relationship between the polar nature of water and its ability to to tissue to organ form hydrogen bonds. Simple complex, however, it depends on what level you"re looking at it from. Nucleus with 1 proton with +ve chage and one electron with -ve charge. When the outer orbit is full (the shell) the atom is most stable so as the. If electron is lost, becomes +ve charged electron number increases, the stability increases. With themselves, each other and other elements. Occurs by atoms sharing electrons with one another. The lighter the element, the stronger the covalent bonds are (the bonds are shorter, making them stronger) Not easily broken without special catalysts (eg. enzymes)

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