Inorganic ions
- Created by: Exotic-L
- Created on: 11-12-15 20:24
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- Inorganic ions
- important for cellular processes like..
- Muscle contraction
- Nervous coordination
- maintaining osmotic pressure in cells and blood
- Macronutrients
- needed in small concentrations
- Iron ion (Fe ^2+)
- constituent of HAEMOGLOBIN
- transports Oxygen in red blood cells
- Lack of iron for humans can lead to ANAEMIA
- constituent of HAEMOGLOBIN
- Magnesium ion (Mg ^2+)
- an important constituent of chlorophyll - therefore is essential for photosynthesis
- plants without magnesium can't MAKE CHLOROPHYLL
- Leaves are yellow
- a condition known as CHLOROSIS
- Leaves are yellow
- Growth is often stunted from lack of glucose
- plants without magnesium can't MAKE CHLOROPHYLL
- Mammals need Mg for BONES
- an important constituent of chlorophyll - therefore is essential for photosynthesis
- Phosphate ion (PO4 ^3-)
- used to make NUCLEOTIDES including ATP
- Constituent of phospholipids found in biological membranes
- Calcium (Ca ^2+)
- like phosphate - an important structural component of BONES AND TEETH in mammals
- component of plant CELL WALLS
- providing strength
- component of plant CELL WALLS
- like phosphate - an important structural component of BONES AND TEETH in mammals
- Micronutrients
- needed in minute, trace concentrations
- Copper
- Zinc
- needed in minute, trace concentrations
- Organic: Molecules that have a high proportion of Carbon atoms
- Inorganic: a molecule or ion that has no more than one Carbon atom
- important for cellular processes like..
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