BIOL 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Electron Shell, Covalent Bond, Fluorine

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Living organisms and their environments are subject to the basic laws of physics and chemistry. Matter: anything that takes up space and has mass: matter is made up of elements. Elements: substances that cannot be broken down to other substances by chemical reactions. Compound: a substance consisting of 2 or more elements combined in a fixed ratio: has characteristics different from those of its elements approx. 20-25% of the naturally occurring elements are essential to life. Essential elements: carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, & nitrogen, make up 96% of living matter. Few other elements: make up remaining 4% of living matter, such as calcium, phosphorus, potassium, sulfur, sodium, chlorine, and. Trace elements: make up <1% of elements essential to life, includes boron, chromium, cobalt, copper, fluorine, etc. Each element consists of a certain kind of atom that is different from those of other elements. An atom is the smallest unit of matter that still retains the properties of an element.

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