BIOC 2300 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2-1: Fluorine, Fluoxetine, Relative Permittivity
28 Dec 2016
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Textbook: essential biochemistry - 3rd edition - charlotte w. pratt and kathleen cornely. Note: water = medium of life because it surrounds biological molecules and determines their chemical reactivities as well as their shapes. How water interacts with other subjects - either through electrostatic or hydrophobic effects - in ways that are not possible for other solvents. In general, wherever there is water, there is life. A prokaryote called pyrolobus fumarii grows near hydrothermal vents in the ocean at temperatures as high as 113 c. As a result of water"s importance to life, it is essential to understand water"s structural and chemical properties. Not only are biological molecules surrounded by water, but their molecular structure is also in part controlled by how their groups interact with water. Water also plays in a role in how they assemble together to form larger structures or how they undergo chemical transformation.
