Review for Science Test
The Chemistry of Life: Biochemistry
You need to know the following:
• Know the vocabulary terms from the notes.
• Know what matter, mass, and volume are.
• Know what an atom is and the 3 parts that make it up.
• Know how to read the periodic table of elements (know
what a chemical symbol is, what the atomic number means,
and what the atomic mass means).
• Know what it means for an atom to be neutral.
• Know how to figure out the number of protons, neutrons,
and electrons there are in a specific element (the chart you
did for homework).
• Know how to figure out which elements and how many
atoms of each there are in a molecule by looking at a
chemical formula.
• Know what a chemical equation is (reactants and products).
• Know what an ion is, how it forms, and how positive and
negative ions are formed.
• Know what compounds and mixtures are and how they are
different.
• Know what it means to be “combined chemically”.
• Know what solutions and suspensions are and the
difference between them.
• Know what it means for a compound to be organic or
inorganic.
• Know what carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic
acids are.
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