Lecture 7 outline and notes

0) Review: Chirality

Biology

1) Why carbon?

2) Amino acids, polymers, and proteins

3) RNA and DNA

4) The RNA world [Demo here]

5) The DNA world

6) Conundra

7) Cells, prokaryotes, eukaryotes (incl. lipids)

8) Energy production

9) Three domains

10) Extremophiles


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