Ideas in this flowchart

• Water is essential for chemical reactions and enzyme function.
• Water is required for even the most basic chemical reactions.
• Proteins fold into their functional shapes according to how their amino-acid sequences react with water.
• Newly formed enzymes conduct their specific reactions in water, the medium used by all organisms.
• Water is an ideal medium for chemical reactions.
• Water can store a large amount of heat.
• Water is electrically neutral.
• Water has a pH of 7.0 and is neither acidic nor basic.
• Water participates in many enzymatic reactions.
• Water can break bonds in enzymatic reactions.
• Removing water from a molecule can form bonds.