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Monday, December 12, 2011

95 Big Picture Concepts, part 1

Fasten in the handout, grab your seat belts, and let's bring it all together.

How are organisms organized?
- Look at this and this and this and ...

What's so special about carbon?  (Why are we carbon based life-forms?)
- Robert Krulwich from NPR has a little video series

What are the most common elements in life? (CHON + PS)

What's so important about Enzymes? - they just control the world of chemistry (and life)!
- Looking at the energy of reactions, and how enzymes make things easier...
- How enzymes affect chemical reactions (5:26 is the best part about energy)
- A good video overview of enzymes - lots of details, and here's another video

Proteins - what are they made of?
- many enzymes are proteins, which are made of amino acids (what do ribosomes do?)
- DNA and the nucleus control which proteins are being made at any time, and since enzymes affect chemical reactions, the nucleus can determine which reactions should occur in the cell by making different ENZYMES (among other ways too...)

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