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The Importance of Water in Living Organisms
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The Importance of Water To Living Organisms Without doubt water is the most important of all molecules discovered, and undiscovered. Water plays an extraordinarily vital part in the every day life of each living organism; from providing a perfect environment for the reproductive cells of animals, to warning proteins of potential problems in DNA and its solvent characteristics that enable countless chemical reactions to take place. I can hardly give water the commendation it deserves for it is of such phenomenal importance to every living thing on this earth. It is the chemical structure of water that gives it such unique and useful qualities. The water molecule is slightly polarised. This means it has a very slightly negative end - the oxygen atom - and a very slightly positive end - the hydrogen atom . . .this is called a dipole. (Heinemann Advanced Science Biology). The hydrogen and oxygen atoms...
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