When sugars and fats are metabolized to release energy for a

When sugars and fats are metabolized to release energy for an organism, approximately 38% of the energy is converted into usable energy, while 62% is lost as heat. What property of water acts to keep temperature levels in the cell from raising to dangerous levels?

Please select one:

(a) high surface tension

(b) high cohesion

(c) high heat of vaporization

(d) high specific heat

(e) the density of solid water is less than the density of liquid water

Solution

d

High specific heat

water have high specific heat because of that t takes a lot of heat to increase the temperature of liquid water because some of the heat must be used to break hydrogen bonds between the molecules.