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Molecules

1. Use Internet Explorer or Netscape 4X (Netscape 6 will not work)
2. Download free professional CHIME molecular visualization software here.

You/ your tech coordinator will need to register (not a big deal)

Plan on about 1 hour with your tech coordinator to download, install and check the software plugin. Each computer will need to have the software downloaded on it.

3. Consult the Advanced Placement Biology Text (Campbell, 5th edition) pp 50, 51, 52, 54

• Hydrogen gas
• Oxygen gas
• Nitrogen gas
• Carbon dioxide
• Water
• Ammonia
• Hydrogen peroxide
• Methane
• Ethane
• Propane
• Methanol
• Ethanol
• Propanol
• Iso-propanol
• Carbohydrates (CH20)n
• Acetic acid
• Ether
• Urea
• Amino acids 69-70 Biochemistry quiz on amino acids (uses CHIME software plugin)
• Nucleic acids bases Campbell page 78
• LONG list of small molecule structures http://xray.bmc.uu.se/hicup/xform.html

Challenge structures 60, 65

Inside a diamond: a NOVA site. Shockwave plugin needed.

Chirality http://jchemed.chem.wisc.edu/JCESoft/CCA/CCA5/MAIN/1ORGANIC/ORG09/MENU.HTM Shows how to construct a Fischer projection, the convention for building a molecular model. and here http://chemed.chem.purdue.edu/organic/topicreview/structures/represent/fischer.html and see Campbell p 82 challenge question 2

Glucose and galactose are stereoisomers . They have the identical compostion, but different arrangements of their atoms.

http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/C/Carbohydrates.html