Description
This course is an introductory course in chemistry for students who are planning life/health related careers requiring some familiarization with general, organic, and biochemistry. This course stresses the applications of chemistry to health related careers. Topics of study include the metric system, states of matter, elementary atomic and molecular structure, introduction to inorganic and organic chemistry, the Periodic Table, basic laboratory procedures, and descriptive chemistry as it relates to everyday experiences. Problem solving, solution chemistry, equilibria, pH, redox, organic nomenclature, introduction to functional groups, organic reactions, biological molecules and metabolism. This course assists the student in the application of chemistry to homeostasis.
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