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Understanding basic safety procedures used in the biology
laboratory. This assignment will also introduce the scientific
method and metric system, and will explore properties of water that
are essential to life.
Apply critical thinking to answer the following:
1. How would it affect organisms living in cold climates if oil or
alcohol were their main body fluid?
2. How do you think the cohesive nature of water relates to its
evaporation?
3. Describe in detail an experiment you could conduct to test
whether another substance could replace water.
Answer1 - Oil is highly nonpolar in nature
whereas water is highly polar If our main body fluid turns to oil
our body cells could not sustain as (ECF) extracellular fluid and
intracellular fluid (ICF)which is the cytoplasm of cells are both
polar in nature whereas cell membranes are nonpolar in nature so if
a nonpolar substance present in ECF and ICF, the cell membrane
couldn't sustain and would rupture immediately on the other case if
alcohol is main body fluid our body it is slightly smaller so not
much difference will be created between the polarity of the cell
membrane and ECF, ICF.
Answer 2- Cohesiveness in the water molecules is
by the bonding of hydrogen bonds which creates surface tension ,
and it does not allow the water droplets to separate from each
other creating adhesion force between them and pull water droplets
towards each other. This property of Cohesion and adhesion do not
allow water molecules to separate and evaporator easily.
Answer3 -
Whatever created life on this planet intended water as one integral/essential part for the sustenance of life - WATER as it has always been known!
it is irreplaceable yet we can conduct solvent test to see to polarity of different substances and see witch substance has polarity similar to water