CHM 1050 - Chemistry for the Life Sciences I

• Conduct experiments, make observations, collect, analyze, and interpret data
• Recognize the use of common measurement units, convert measurements done in metric system into other related units and practice converting medication dosing
• Predict periodic properties and explain using atomic structure and electrons
• Draw Lewis dot structures, three-dimensional structure of molecules, describe bonds, determine polarity of molecules, and write formulas
• Use changes in chemical reactions to predict types of chemical reation, employ the conservation of matter, describe energy changes, explain rates of reactions and explain equilibrium systems including buffer systems
• Identify states of matter, perform calculations based on gas laws, apply gas laws to life science situations
• Use molecular polarity and intermolecular forces to predict physical properties of compounds, calculate solution concentrations, and apply Henry’s law
• Describe acids, bases, salts and buffers, pH, blood as buffer, and learn pathologies of acidosis or alkalosis
• Describe forms of radiation, use nuclear reaction equations and half-life, recognize health effects of radiation, use biological units red, gray and rem, describe medical uses

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• Measurement units
• Atoms and molecules
• Periodic table
• Bonding and intermolecular forces
• Types of chemical reactions
• States of matter
• Solutions and colloids
• Acid and base properties of solutions
• Nuclear chemistry and medical use of radioisotopes

• Scientific measurement
• Density
• Properties of types of matter
• Physical and chemical changes
• Moles and chemical formulas
• Chemical reactions and equations
• Molecular geometry and bonding
• Intermolecular forces
• Solutions and electrolytes
• Properties of solutions: osmosis, dialysis, filtration
• Analysis of a dialysis bag
• Acids, bases, pH, and buffers