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Teachers & SchoolsPresenting, carbon (12C): And his two-doors-down friendly neighbor on the periodic table,...
We said that a regular atom needs to have the same number of protons as electrons, but we...
We now know that the number of protons is what defines the kind of atom or element we are dealing...
You may ask yourself, what are all these atoms and ions doing with themselves? As it turns out, a...
We’ll overlook the indiscretion of hydrogen bonds in light of the fact that they are partly...
Congratulations! You are officially a certified chemistry guru. We can now move on to some more...
Some biological molecules are relatively small and may contain a handful of atoms bound together....
Carbs are awesome, and not just because they’re responsible for some of the tastiest...
Lipids are an eclectic bunch of biomolecules. Yet, for all their differences, each and every...
Now that we have left Lipid Town, we move on to the big city, Proteinopolis. Proteins do all...
Nucleic acids—our buddies deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA, and ribonucleic acid, or...
1. Don’t confuse ions and isotopes. Remember, ions are charged particles. They form when...
Audesirk, T. & Audesirk, G. (1999). Biology: Life on Earth (5th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ:...