▪️🔹1.1 Inorganic Ions -chemical Elements

Question 1

What are inorganic ions?

What important functions do they have?

Answer 1

Inorganic ions are electrolytes or minerals
They are important in mcellular process’s including muscle contraction, nervous co-ordination and maintaining water potential in cells

Question 2

What are the 2 types of minerals?

Answer 2

Micronutrients (minute concentrations) and macronutrients (small concentrations)

Question 3

What is the role of magnesium ions (an inorganic ion)

What is caused in plants by a lack of magnesium

Answer 3

Important constitute of chlorophyll :: essential for photosynthesis, mammals need magnesium for their bones
Lack of magnesium = chlorosis

Question 4

What is the role of iron ions (an inorganic ion)

What is a condition created by a lack of ion

Answer 4

Constitute of haemoglobin that transports oxygen in red blood cells.
Lack of iron= anaemia

Question 5

What is the role of phosphate ions (an inorganic ion)

Answer 5

Found in biological membranes phosphate ions make nucleotides, including ATP, part of phospholipids

Question 6

What is the role of calcium ions (an inorganic ion)

Answer 6

Structural component of bones and teeth in mammals

Part of plant cells walls, providing strength

Question 7

Define an organic ion

Answer 7

Molecules that have a High proportion of carbon atoms

Question 8

Define an inorganic ion

Answer 8

A molecule or ion that has no more than one carbon atom