District 11: Biochemistry
Welcome to your training for how to take down District 11 when you are in the arena. This is the other District that has never won. They are one of the favorites to win this year because of the extremely strong tribute that was picked during the reaping. District 11 possesses a power far superior to the other Districts: the power to make life. While they are astonishingly great at making life, you can bet that they will be equally good at taking away life.
Past District 11 Champion
YOUR TRAINING BEGINS NOW
Directions: Please take out your District 11 guided notes and review the following content:
Carbon, our favorite whore
Carbon's 4 valence electrons allows it to form many bonds.
- Recall, carbon likes to bond with a lot of atoms. This is due to the 4 valence electrons that it has. These 4 valence electrons allows it to form the most possible covalent bonds with other elements (and with itself). Because of this ability to bond, carbon is essential in all living matter.
- Because of carbon’s unique bonding characteristics, this allows it to form repeating structures. Large biological molecules are just repeating structures of smaller carbon units.
A polymer is formed by linking together these small monomers.
Examples of monomers and polymers
1. Monomer: amino acid
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PRACTICE
Complete the following practice problems so that you can properly trained on how to take District 11 down:
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