Your instructor strongly recommends that you take advantage of these and other study materials. Carbon possesses just the right combination of stability and reactivity in compounds to make it useful as the backbone or skeletal element in most of the molecules of living things and for many commercial chemicals. A study of organic chemistry is a necessity before one undertakes a study of biochemistry.
Biochemistry is the chemistry of living things.
Some of these students are wildlife management majors and agriculture majors. The major objective of this course is to introduce some of the major aspects of organic chemistry and biochemistry to students who need an appreciation for these fields of study. Homework problems are suggested for each chapter covered, and use of the solutions and study manual, textbook and review questions in the library is strongly recommended. In most of the freshman and sophomore chemistry courses at UTM, the lab grade is averaged in as some percentage of the overall grade. This lab is taught as a separate course and a separate grade is given for it.