Crash Course
The most revolutionary course in biology of all time
begins. Learn about covalent and ionic and hydrogen
bonds. What about electron orbitals and the octet rule,
and what does it all have to do with a madman named
Gilbert Lewis. It 's all contained within [ Music ] Carbon is
willing and interested to bond with lots of different
molecules like hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, nitrogen,
or to other molecules of carbon. It can do this in infinite
configurations, allowing it to be the core atom of
complicated structures that make living things like
ourselves. Life is entirely based on this element. Carbon
is the foundation of biology. The little Lewis dot structure
that we use to represent how atoms bond to each other
is something that was created by a troubled mad genius.
It 's not some abstract scientific thing that 's always
existed. It's a tool that was thought. up by a guy, and it
was so useful that we 've been using it ever since in
biology, most compounds can be displayed in lewishish
dot structure form..
Instead of sharing electrons atoms just completely
wholeheartedly donate or accept an electron from
another atom and then live happily as a charged atom..
, The. Most common ionic compound in our daily lives is
UH salt UH sodium chloride NaCl. This stuff despite its
deliciousness as I mentioned previously, is made up of
two really nasty chemicals, sodium and chlorine. The
strength of covalent bonds varies wildly. How these
bonds are made and broken is intensely important to life
and and to our lives making and breaking bonds is in fact
the key to life itself.. Even the sexiest person you have
ever met in your life is just a collection of organic
compounds rambling around..
Water - Liquid Awesome: Crash Course Biology #2
Crash Course
all life as we know it is dependent upon there being
water around. scientists and astronomers are always
looking out into the universe trying to figure out whether
there is life elsewhere. they're always getting really
excited when they find water someplace particularly
liquid water., but why do we think that water is
necessary for life. why does water on other planets get
us so freaking excited. Water has the highest cohesion of
any nonmetallic liquid. water adheres weakly to the wax
paper or teflon, but strongly to itself.. cohesion is the
attraction between two like things, like attraction
between one molecule of water and another of water..