1. How transition metals help you to function!

2. What are metals? How do you think a metal looks? They exist in many different forms.......... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYW50F 42ss8

3. What are the transition metals?

4. Science-fiction? You do not have to look like him...............to realise that we all contain transition metals in our bodies

5. Function So what do the metals do in your body? There are 5 roles they play: structural storage Electron transfer Binding/transport catalysis

6. Metals in your body-Blood Transport oxygen Iron (Fe) colour Haemoglobin

7. Blood http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-sKZWqsUpw

8. Lights, Camera, Action!

9. Alien Blood! Which solution is which metal?? Try each solution with each of the mixing agents...................and see what you get! Have fun mixing and making alien blood! Which blood suits your alien?

10. Blood and Smoking Oxygen reversibly-binds to the iron in our blood What is in smoke? Carbon monoxide-this does not reversibly bind!!!!!! So what happens?

12. Metals and cancer Cancer is when cells divide uncontrollably............ So what do cancer treatments target? DNA – the building block of life! Think of it as a ZIP

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