- Why is carbon the basis for life on Earth?
- What other elements are in abundance in living organisms?
- What was vitalism? how does it contrast with mechanism?
- What was the Miller-Urey experiment? Be able to explain the diagram of their apparatus.
- Review covalent bonds.
- What types of bonds does carbon form? How do these bonds affect the final structure of a molecule (fig. 4.3)?
- Review how we find the valence of an atom and memorize the valences in fig 4.4.
- What is a hydrocarbon? What gives hydrocarbons their various properties?
- Know how to define the three kinds of isomers.
More on Friday!
