The transition from the General Chemistry sequence to Organic and then, for many students, to Biochemistry should be as seamless as possible. These subjects need to be seen as a study in scale in which the basics of how chemicals behave are presented in General Chemistry, the bigger ideas of molecular structure, construction, and detailed analysis developed in Organic, and then the application of macromolecules to biosynthesis in Biochemistry.

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