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Chapter 3

Chapter 3. Water & The Fitness of the Environment. You Must Know. 1) The importance of hydrogen bonding to the properties of water 2) Four unique properties of water, and how each contributes to life on Earth 3) How to interpret the pH scale 4) The importance of buffers in biological systems.

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Chapter 3

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  1. Chapter 3 Water & The Fitness of the Environment

  2. You Must Know • 1) The importance of hydrogen bonding to the properties of water • 2) Four unique properties of water, and how each contributes to life on Earth • 3) How to interpret the pH scale • 4) The importance of buffers in biological systems

  3. WATER!!! • Water is the biological medium on Earth • All living organisms require water more than any other substance • Most cells are surrounded by water, and cells themselves are about 70–95% water • The abundance of water is the main reason the Earth is habitable

  4. 3.1 • The water molecule is a polar molecule: The opposite ends have opposite charges • Oxygen is slightly negative, Hydrogen is slightly positive • The Polarity of water molecules results in hydrogen bonding • Hydrogen bonds form between (-) Oxygen & (+) Hydrogen on ANOTHER water molecule • Can form a maximum of 4 hydrogen bonds at a time • The structure of water is the key to its properties • One Oxygen & Two Hydrogen’s bonded to form a molecule

  5. 3.2 • Four properties of water (the key are the hydrogen bonds) • Cohesive behavior • Ability to moderate temperature • Expansion upon freezing • Versatility as a solvent

  6. 1) Cohesion • Linking of like molecules • “water molecule joined to water molecule” • Allows for surface tension

  7. Adhesion • Clinging of one substance to another • “water molecule attached to some other molecule” • Water droplets on a mirror • Transpiration • Movement of water molecules up thin tubes (xylem) and evaporation through the openings in leaves • Uses Adhesion (xylem) & Cohesion (water to water)

  8. 2) Ability to moderate temperature • Kinetic energy is the energy of motion • Heat is a measure of the total amount of kinetic energy due to molecular motion • Temperature measures the intensity of heat due to the average kinetic energy of molecules

  9. Specific Heat: • Amount of heat required to raise or lower the temperature of a substance by 1 degree Celsius • Relative to most materials, the temp of water changes less when heat is lost or absorbed • This causes a high specific heat

  10. Water’s high specific heat can be traced to hydrogen bonding • Heat is absorbed when hydrogen bonds break • Heat is released when hydrogen bonds form

  11. This high specific heat results in: • Stable temperature of Earth’s oceans • Enables Earth to support vast quantities of both plant & animal life

  12. 3) Expansion upon freezing • Water is LESS dense as a solid than as a liquid (opposite in most other substances) • This is why ice floats • This keeps large bodies of water from freezing solid – this moderates temperatures & allows for LIFE

  13. 4) Versatility as a solvent • A solution is a liquid that is a homogeneous mixture of substances • A solvent is the dissolving agent of a solution • The solute is the substance that is dissolved • An aqueous solution is one in which water is the solvent

  14. A hydrophilic substance is one that has an affinity for water • A hydrophobic substance is one that does not have an affinity for water • Oil molecules are hydrophobic because they have relatively nonpolar bonds • A colloid is a stable suspension of fine particles in a liquid

  15. Most biochemical reactions occur in water • Chemical reactions depend on collisions of molecules and therefore on the concentration of solutes in an aqueous solution

  16. 3.3 • Acidic & Basic conditions affect living organisms • An acid is any substance that increases the H+ concentration of a solution • A base is any substance that reduces the H+ concentration of a solution

  17. A hydrogen atom in a hydrogen bond between two water molecules can shift from one to the other: • The hydrogen atom leaves its electron behind and is transferred as a proton, or hydrogen ion (H+) • The molecule with the extra proton is now a hydronium ion (H3O+), though it is often represented as H+ • The molecule that lost the proton is now a hydroxide ion (OH–)

  18. Changes in concentrations of H+ and OH– can drastically affect the chemistry of a cell • Concentrations of H+ and OH– are equal in pure water • Adding certain solutes, called acids and bases, modifies the concentrations of H+ and OH–

  19. pH Scale • In any aqueous solution at 25°C the product of H+ and OH– is constant and can be written as [H+][OH–] = 10–14 • The pH of a solution is defined by the negative logarithm of H+ concentration, written as pH = –log [H+] • For a neutral aqueous solution [H+] is 10–7 = –(–7) = 7

  20. Acidic solutions have pH values less than 7 • Basic solutions have pH values greater than 7 • Most biological fluids have pH values in the range of 6 to 8

  21. The internal pH of most living cells must remain close to pH 7 • Buffers are substances that minimize changes in concentrations of H+ and OH– in a solution • Most buffers consist of an acid-base pair that reversibly combines with H+

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