Chemistry of Life, The Journey of a Carbon Atom

The water backs you into a corner of the cell where there are also other CHO rings like yours. They ask for your OH groups while pointing their polar heads towards you threateningly. You better not mess with these molecules their cohesion makes them all move as a group holding on to each other, with adhesion they can stick to almost any surface, even when in their relaxed state of ice, they have amazing properties where they become less dense and float on each other, plus they are a really good and strong solvent. This is not a fight you want to start.

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