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    The document discusses acids and bases in the body. It states that the body must maintain a near neutral pH of 7 through buffers that neutralize acids produced via metabolic reactions. Water dissociates into hydrogen (H+) and hydroxide (OH-) ions, and acids contain more hydronium (H3O+) ions while bases have more hydroxide ions. When acids and bases neutralize each other in the body, they produce salt and water to help maintain homeostasis and a neutral pH required for proper protein function.

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    The document discusses acids and bases in the body. It states that the body must maintain a near neutral pH of 7 through buffers that neutralize acids produced via metabolic reactions. Water dissociates into hydrogen (H+) and hydroxide (OH-) ions, and acids contain more hydronium (H3O+) ions while bases have more hydroxide ions. When acids and bases neutralize each other in the body, they produce salt and water to help maintain homeostasis and a neutral pH required for proper protein function.

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    The document discusses acids and bases in the body. It states that the body must maintain a near neutral pH of 7 through buffers that neutralize acids produced via metabolic reactions. Water dissociates into hydrogen (H+) and hydroxide (OH-) ions, and acids contain more hydronium (H3O+) ions while bases have more hydroxide ions. When acids and bases neutralize each other in the body, they produce salt and water to help maintain homeostasis and a neutral pH required for proper protein function.

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    Acids and Bases

    The degree of acidity or alkalinity (basic) is important in organisms. The body


    must constantly maintain a near neutral pH (7) in the blood and body tissues. To do this,
    the body produces buffers that can neutralize acids. Acidic and basic conditions in the
    body occur due to different metabolic (chemical) reactions taking place throughout the
    body.

    1. What does alkalinity mean?

    2. What pH must organisms maintain?

    3. What characteristic of life would maintaining this balance be? (See textbook)

    4. What chemicals does the body produce to keep neutral pH?

    5. Buffers ____________ acids in the body.

    6. Acidic and basic conditions occur due to _____________ reactions in the body.

    Water is one of the most important molecules in the body. Cells are made mostly of
    water and water is required for almost every metabolic reaction in the body. The
    force of attraction between water molecules is so strong that the oxygen atom of
    one molecule can actually remove the hydrogen from other water molecules. This
    reaction is known as dissociation, and it takes place in our cells. Water (H20)
    dissociates into H+ and OH- ions. A charged atom or molecule is called an ion.
    The OH- ion is called the hydroxide ion, while the H+ ion is called the hydrogen
    ion. Free H+ ions can react with another water molecule to form the H3O+ or
    hydronium ion. The human body requires a neutral pH for many reasons. One
    reason cells like a neutral pH is for proteins. Basic or acidic solutions denature
    proteins (change their shape) so they no longer work.

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    7. What is dissociation?

    8. What is the chemical formula for water?

    9. What is an ion?

    10. Name the 2 ions form when water dissociates.

    11. What is the hydroxide ion?

    12. What is a hydrogen ion?

    13. What is the hydronium ion and its formula?

    Acidity or alkalinity is a measure of the relative amount of H+ and OH- ions


    dissolved in a solution. Neutral solutions have an equal number of H+ and OH- ions.
    Acids have more H3O+ ions (H+) than OH- ions. Acids taste sour and can be corrosive.
    Digestive fluids in the body are acidic and must be neutralized by buffers. Bases contain
    more OH- ions than H3O+ ions. Bases taste bitter and feel slippery.

    When an acid is combined with a base, neutralization occurs. The result of


    neutralization is a salt and water. Neutralization helps return our body pH to neutral.
    The process of our bodies maintaining neutral pH so that proteins can work properly
    without being denaturated (unfolded) is known as homeostasis.

    14. How do you measure for acidity or alkalinity?

    15. What is a neutral solution?

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    16. Acids have more ___________ ions and taste _____________. And can be

    ________________.

    17. Bases contain more _____________ ions than ____________ ions.

    18. ______________ fluids are acid in the body and must be _________________

    by _________________.

    19. Bases taste ________________ and feel __________________.

    20. What is neutralization?

    21. What 2 things are produced by neutralization?

    22. Neutralization keeps our pH at ________________ and is an example of

    maintaining ______________________.

    Color the following diagrams according to the key.

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    4
    Que
    stions:

    1. Why is the water molecule so important to organisms?


    ______________________________________________________________
    ______________________________________________________________

    2. What ions form when water dissociates?


    ______________________________________________________________

    3. What is meant by the term alkalinity?


    ______________________________________________________________

    4. What is produced by the body to help neutralize acidic conditions?


    ______________________________________________________________

    5. What is the name for the OH ions?


    -

    ______________________________________________________________

    6. What is the name for the H ion?


    +

    _____________________________________________________________

    7. How does the hydronium ion form? What is its formula?


    ______________________________________________________________
    ______________________________________________________________

    8. Why do most proteins need near a neutral pH?


    ______________________________________________________________

    9. What two substances form from an acid-base neutralization?


    ______________________________________________________________

    10. Acids have an excess of ____________ ions.

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