Water
Water has 2 very important roles! But anyway, without water no life
would
exist on earth, it is the most important biochemical of all. Three
quarters
of the earth is covered with water.
1.Role
70-95% percent of a cell contains water. The human body for example
contains about 60% water.
2.Role
An environment for all organisms, which live in water.
Such a small molecule would exist as a gas at normal Earth
temperatures were it not for its special property of hydrogen bonding
to other water
molecules.
In water (used as a medium) molecules and ions can mix in and hence a
medium. In this medium life could envolve.
Hydrogen Bonds are hard to break and hard to convert from liquid
standard to
a gas. Therefore a lot of energy is needed. Because of this qualitys,
it is
difficult to separate the water molecules and to affect the physical
properties of water.
Important other roles
Water as a solvent
Water is a solvent for ions and polar molecules. Water has the
quality,
that its molecules are attracted to ions and polar molecules and can
collect
around and separate them.
Chemicals can move free and react with other chemicals in water. Most
processes in living organisms take place in solution in this way. As
soon as
a chemical dissolves in water, the watermolecules start doing the
mentioned
process.
But, water is not a solvent for non-polar molecules and lipids. In
contrast,
the water molecules start pushing them together, until the water
molecules
are attracted to each other. Because of this, the structures are more
stabile and it is important in hydrophobic interactions in protein and
membrane structure.
Water as a transport medium
The fact that water is an solvent is very important in other areas,
too. In
animals it is needed, to transport things in the blood, in the
faster, i.e., a lot of time they have more energy than they have. So, they collide with more. energy and more frequently. pH of Solution: Water has a pH of 7 at 25°C. As the pH decreases.
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enclosure is driven by the strength of the hydrogen bonds between the water molecules, leading
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The Biological Importance of Water as a Solvent and as a Medium for Living Organisms
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The water molecule is a very small one but because of its unique properties it behaves like
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