Emphasis in this course will be on the fundamental principles of biology, cell structure and functions, cell energetics, genetics, and evolution.
A comprehensive, two-semester study of the compounds of carbon using the functional group approach and emphasizing reactions, mechanisms, synthesis, and spectroscopy.
Introduction to the structure of atoms and molecules, stressing molecular electronic properties, periodic behavior, solutions, gas laws, chemical equilibrium, thermochemistry, and chemical properties. Mathematical relations are stressed throughout.