CHEM1130
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CHEM1130 - General, Organic, & Biological Chemistry - 4 - Credits
Course Learning Outcomes
Review math and learn to do calculations while working everyday examples of problems in health and medicine using metric units.
Understand the relationship of isotopes to the atomic mass of an element on the periodic table.
Understand the relationship between electron arrangement, group number, and periodic law.
Understand different types of radiation, radiation protection, balancing of nuclear equations, and the fusion and fission processes.
Learn the relationship between group numbers, valence electrons, and the formation of ionic and covalent compounds.
Write ionic formulas and names of compounds with polyatomic ions.
Use VSEPR theory to determine the shape, bond angles, and polarity of a molecule.
Classify an equation as a combination, decomposition, replacement, combustion, and/or oxidation-reduction.
For a given mass of a substance in a reaction, use the appropriate mole factors and molar masses to calculate the mass of a reactant or product.
Understand solubility and determine whether a salt will dissolve in water.
Calculate the percent concentrations and molarity of a solution.
Describe the behavior of a red blood cell in hypotonic, isotonic, and hypertonic solutions.
Describe the characteristics of acids and bases.
Classify bases/acids as strong or weak.
Describe the function of a buffer. Describe the properties, reactions, and names of alkanes, alkenes alkynes. alcohols, phenols, thiols, ethers, aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic acids, esters, amines, amides, and be able to draw their condensed structural and line-angle formulas.
Identify chiral and achiral carbon atoms in an organic molecule. Use Fischer projections to identify and draw the D and L enantiomers of monosaccharides.
Draw the Haworth structures for monosaccharides.
Learn the physical and chemical properties of saccharides.
Describe the classes of lipids and learn how to identify lipids as being saturated or unsaturated.
Learn the chemical properties of lipids, the structural features of phospholipids and steroids, and describe the composition and function of the cellular lipid bilayer.
Describe the primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary structure of a protein.
Describe enzymes and their roles in enzyme-catalyzed reactions.
Describe the components that make up the nucleic acids of DNA and RNA.
Describe the primary structure of RNA and DNA, the double helix of DNA, and the process of DNA replication.
Identify the different types of RNA and the synthesis of mRNA.
Use the genetic code to write the amino acid sequence for a segment of mRNA.
