Get a head-start on weekend work!

Hi Everyone.  Your homework this weekend is to read chapter 4.  Here are the discussion (no turnitin.com) questions I wrote so far (final copy will be handed out on Friday):

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

More on Friday!