Address each of the 6 questions in 100 words or more each with references and in text citations.

1.  Explain how energy is invested, stored, and released via chemical reactions, particularly those reactions that are critical to life
2. Explain the importance of the inorganic compounds that contribute to life, such as water, salts, acids
3. Explain the relationship between an atom’s number of electrons and its relative stability
4. Explain the structure and contents of the nucleus, as well as the process of DNA replication
5. Explain the process by which a cell builds proteins using the DNA code
6. Distinguish between anatomy and physiology, and identify several branches of each