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EXPLAIN HOW THE PROPERTIES OF WATER MAKE IT SUITED TO (A) ITS FUNCTIONS IN THE BODIES OF LIVING ORGANISMS Water is useful in a variety of different ways. The first of these being its solvency. Because the oxygen atom in water has a greater pull on the shared electrons than the hydrogen atoms, this gives two seperate charged areas. So substances that have an electrostatic charge are attracted to the charges on water molecules, allowing them to dissolve. This allows molecules like nutrients to be dissolved in water, and be actively transported around an organism. The solvency of water is also useful for digestion in organisms. Using hydrolysis to break down disaccharides and polysaccharides into monosaccharides by adding water. The use of water in digestion can be attributed to another of its properties. Water can be heated into the gaseous form of water vapour, which removes water from its liquid state. This process of condensation helps...

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