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State of California Chemistry Standards
Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry
10. The bonding characteristics of carbon allow the formation of many
different organic molecules of varied sizes, shapes, and chemical properties
and provide the biochemical basis of life. As a basis for understanding
this concept:
a. Students know large molecules (polymers), such as proteins, nucleic
acids, and starch, are formed by repetitive combinations of simple subunits.
b. Students know the bonding characteristics of carbon that result in
the formation of a large variety of structures ranging from simple hydrocarbons
to complex polymers and biological molecules.
c. Students know amino acids are the building blocks of proteins.
d.* Students know the system for naming the ten simplest linear hydrocarbons
and isomers that contain single bonds, simple hydrocarbons with double
and triple bonds, and simple molecules that contain a benzene ring.
e.* Students know how to identify the functional groups that form the
basis of alcohols, ketones, ethers, amines, esters, aldehydes, and organic
acids.
f.* Students know the R-group structure of amino acids and know how they
combine to form the polypeptide backbone structure of proteins.
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