Biochemistry Flashcards
1
Q
Name any characteristics of water
A
- Composes 75% of your brain
- Regulates your body temperature
- Makes up 83% of your blood
- Removes waste
- Composes 22% of your bones
- Cushions your joints
- Helps carry nutrients and oxygen to your cells
- Moistens oxygen for breathing
- Helps convert food to eagerly
- Protects and cushions your vital organs
- Helps your body absorb nutrients
- Makes up 75% of your muscles
2
Q
What does saying water is “universal solvent “ mean?
A
Many things can go through it
3
Q
Building process (synthesis)
A
Anabolism
4
Q
Breaking down process ( cellular respiration digestion )
A
Catabolism
5
Q
What does “water is a polar molecule mean”
A
Oxygen retains its negative charges
6
Q
Cohesion force
A
Is attraction between molecules of the same kind
Eg. Water molecules being attracted to each other
7
Q
Adhesion
A
Attraction between 2 different substances
8
Q
Adhesion + Cohesion =?
A
Capillarity ( rising of a liquid up a thin tube)
9
Q
Saturated solution
A
No more solutions can enter
10
Q
Hydrophilic
A
Attracts water
11
Q
Hydrophobic
A
Repels water
12
Q
Crystal structure of ice
A
Ordered
Molecular
Structure of frozen water (ice)
