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Carbon and the Molecular Diversity of Life
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Biology
Undergraduate 1
09/12/2012

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Organic Chemistry
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The branch of chemistry that specializes in the study of carbon compounds.
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Vitalism
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The belief that a life force outside the jurisdiction of physical and chemical laws, which was destroyed by the discovery of biotic substances from abiotic substances.
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Sceintist who replicated conditions to those on early earth to shoot down Vitalism
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Stanley Miller
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Scientist who made urea
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Wohler
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Hydrocarbons
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Organic molecules consisting of only carbon and hydrogen, which are hydrophobic and release a lot of energy.
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Isomers
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Compounds with the same numbers of the same elements, but difference structures and hence different properties.
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Structural Isomers
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Isomers that are different in the covalent arrangements.
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Cis-trans Isomers
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Isomers with that have carbon bonds to the same atoms, but differ in the spatial arrangement due to the inflexibility of double bonds.
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X on the same side
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Cis isomers
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X on opposite side
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Trans isomers
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Enantiomers
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Isomers that are the mirror "left hand, right handed" images of one another.
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Functional Groups
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The chemical groups that affect molecular function by being directly involved in chemical reactions.
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Adenosine Triophosphate
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ATP - An organic phosphate consisting of an adenosine attached to three phosphate groups, which loses a phosphate and becomes ADP and energy.
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