water

• What provides indirect evidence for evolution?

  Common chemistry of all life on Earth
• What role does water play in metabolic reactions?

  Water is a metabolite in many reactions
• What types of reactions involve water as a metabolite?

  Condensation and hydrolysis reactions
• Why is water considered an important solvent?

  Because metabolic reactions occur in it
• What does water’s relatively high heat capacity do?

  It buffers changes in temperature
• What is the effect of water’s large latent heat of vaporisation?

  It provides cooling with little water loss
• What does the strong cohesion between water molecules support?

  Columns of water in plant transport cells
• What phenomenon does water's cohesion produce at its surface?

  Surface tension where water meets air
• What is the most common component of cells?

  Water