Lecture 7 outline and notes

Finishing Chemisty

1) Chirality

Biology

2) Why carbon?

3) Amino acids, polymers, and proteins

4) RNA and DNA

5) The RNA world [Demo here]

6) The DNA world

7) Conundra

8) Cells, prokaryotes, eukaryotes (incl. lipids)

9) Energy production

10) Three domains

11) Extremophiles


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