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AP Biology Chapter Outlines & Objectives
Campbell’s Biology,
7th Edition Created by: C. Massengale, Stuttgart School District Chapter Outline:
Chapter Objectives:
The Importance of Carbon
1. Explain how carbon’s electron configuration
accounts for its ability to form large, complex, and diverse organic molecules.
2. Describe how carbon skeletons may vary, and
explain how this variation contributes to the diversity and complexity of
organic molecules.
3. Describe the basic structure of a hydrocarbon
and explain why these molecules are hydrophobic.
4. Distinguish among the three types of isomers:
structural, geometric, and enantiomer.
Functional Groups
5. Name the major functional groups found in
organic molecules. Describe the basic structure of each functional group and
outline the chemical properties of the organic molecules in which they occur.
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