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2-1:Chemicals, Elements, & Compounds

2-2:  Atoms and Molecules

3-1:  Effects of Water and Polarity

3-2:  Dissociation & pH

4-1:  Importance of Carbon

4-2:  Functional Groups

5-1:  Polymer Principles

5-2:  Carbohydrates

5-3:  Lipids

5-4:  Proteins

5-5:  Nucleic Acids

6-1:  Energy & ATP

6-2:  Enzymes

6-3:  Metabolic Control

7-1:  How We Study Cells

7-2:  View of the Cell

7-3:  Nucleus and Ribosomes

7-4:  Endomembrane System

7-5:  Other Membrane Organelles

7-6:  Cytoskeleton

7-7:  Cell Surface Junctions

8-1: Membrane Structure

8-2:  Membrane Function

Endosymbiotic Theory

9-1A:  Introduction to Cellular Respiration

9-1B:  Redox reactions

9-2A:  Glycolysis

9-2B:  Krebs Cycle and Electron transport chain

9-3A:  Fermentation

9-3B: More on metabolic processes

10-1:  Nature of Photosynthesis

10-2:  Pathways of photosynthesis

10-3A:  Calvin cycle

10-3B:  Alternative pathways

12-A:  Cell Division -Key Roles

12-B:  Mitotic cell cycle

12-C:  Cell cycle regulation

13-A:  Meiosis - sexual life cycle

13-B:  Role of meiosis

13-C:  Origins of genetic variation

16-A:  DNA - the genetic material

16-B:  Replication of DNA

16-C:  DNA repair

17-A:  Genes and Proteins

17-B:  RNA Synthesis:  Transcription

17-C:  Synthesis of Protein:  Translation

18-19:  Regulation of Gene Expression

18-20:  DNA Technologies

14A:  Mendel's Discoveries

14B:  Extending mendelian genetics

14C:  Mendelian inheritance in humans

15A:  Mendel and Chromosomes

15B:  Sex Chromosomes

15C:  Genetic disorders

22A:  Historical context of evolution

22B:  Darwinian revolution

22C:  Evidence of evolution

23A:  Population genetics

23B:  Causes of evolution

24A:  Speciation

25A:  Systematics

26A: MajorLineagesOfLife

Addendum to Unit 1 Lecture Notes

These are lecture notes that did not properly transfer to the original PDF files. 

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