Please bring this handout to class for the next two weeks. The 14th edition is required this year.
Recitations start next week.
No quiz the first week. But first we need to know what are the chemicals that need to be made if we are to create one net E. coli cell. We will use our discussion of the water molecule as a springboard for introducing different types of chemical bonds that are important in biology. Covalent bonds are very strong bonds. We can compare the strength of various chemical bonds by noting the amount of energy it would take to break the bond .