BIOL 1201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Valence Electron, Molar Concentration, Chemical Polarity
28 Nov 2016
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What is science: a body of knowledge, an approach to understanding nature. What do scientists do: make observations, attempt to discern patterns, assume that the future is like the past. What happens as a result of this process: terminology been tested. No weight of validity (could be right or wrong). Polar-covalent (difference in electronegativity"s: atomic 10-8 meters, wholist approach study all parts in tact, (cid:498)specific behaviors only happen when the system is intact(cid:499), some phenomenon"s that only occur when things are all. Approaches to biology: reductionist approach take the system apart and reduce it to the smallest parts, then once you understand the structure and function individually, put the parts back together. What scales are biologists interested in: community/ecosystem -- 106 meters intact. Atoms: smallest unit of matter separable by normal chemical means, the smallest unit of matter that retains all the properties of that element.
