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Water: its importance to life
Author(s) -
Chaplin Martin F.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
biochemistry and molecular biology education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.34
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1539-3429
pISSN - 1470-8175
DOI - 10.1111/j.1539-3429.2001.tb00070.x
Subject(s) - function (biology) , nucleic acid , process (computing) , chemistry , biology , environmental ethics , epistemology , engineering ethics , computer science , philosophy , biochemistry , engineering , microbiology and biotechnology , operating system
Textbooks increasingly include material concerning the importance of water but this topic is often treated over‐simplistically with insufficient attention being given to the central position of water in life processes. In this article, modern views of the fundamental role that water plays in biochemical function and process are summarized. The importance of water in the structures of nucleic acids and proteins is explained. © 2001 IUBMB. Published by Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.