Life: The Science of Biology
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Author: David E. Sadava, David M. Hillis, H. Craig Heller, Sally D. Hacker
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Chapter 39.2, Problem 3R
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The volume of water, extracellular fluid, intracellular fluid, and blood plasma based on the weight of the body.
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Water plays a major role in the body. All the reactions take place in the watery medium only. In an adult human body, amount of water present is approximately equal to sixty percent (60%) of the total body weight. Ranging from the intracellular fluid (ICF) to the extracellular fluid (ECF), everything is made up of water. A cell receives nutrients from the ECF and passes its waste products into the same.
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