Objectives

• Review atomic structures
• Types of radioactive emissions: alpha, beta, and gamma
• Explain a half life
• Characteristics of mixtures
• Distinguishing mixtures and compounds
• Roles of electrons in chemical bonding
• Distinguish between the types of bonding
• Factors that influence rates of chemical reactions
• Review the properties of water
• Biochemistry: the composition and reactions of living matter
• Differences between acids, bases and salts
• Buffers role in physiology
• Biological Macromolecules: what they are; basic chemical structure; general characteristics; general functions
•  Structural levels of proteins
• Differences between fibrous and globular proteins
• Characteristics of enzymes
• DNA structure