Drinking too much plain water in a short period of time can result in water intoxication. As a result, blood plasma will become hypotonic. What effect do you think this would have on blood cells?  Cells will be crenated. Cells may be lysed. Cells will be plasmolyzed. Cells will not change.

How are heavy metals and other toxic chemicals removed from drinking water at most city water treatment plants? High tech filtering systems Flocculation using aluminum sulfate Ozone and Ultraviolet light It isn't normally treated for toxic chemicals or heavy metals. The source water must be free of these.

) In Chapter 8 (The Water Soluble Vitamins), section 8.1 (What are Vitamins) discusses  Absorption, Storage and Excretion of Vitamins, both water- and fat-soluble. How readily a vitamin can be absorbed and utilized by the body is called its bioavailability. Fat-soluble vitamins require _fat__in the diet for absorption while water soluble vitamins, which include all B vitamins and vitamin ______, dissolve in water and depend on energy-requiring transport systems or need to be bound to specific molecules in the GI tract in order to be absorbed in the small intestine. Once absorbed into the blood, vitamins must be transported to the cells, mostly by being bound to _________________________ for transport.  Fat soluble vitamins, which include vitamins ______, ________, _________ and _______ are incorporated into ___________________ for transport from the intestine. With the exception of vitamin B12, the water-soluble vitamins are easily excreted from the body in the urine. In contrast,…