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1. Usually we associate inorganic compounds with the nonliving world and organic compounds with the living world:

a. What property of water makes it an inorganic compound? What property does water share with an organic compound?

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b. Show that the properties of water are essential to human life.

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2. Considering organic molecules:
a. starch and glycogen are both composed of glucose. How do they differ?

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b. oleic acid an linoleic acid are both unsaturated fatty acids. How do you predict they differ?

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c. actin an myosin are both proteins found in muscles. How do you predict they differ?

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