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mohof50
Oct 21, 2008, 07:05 AM
When a water system becomes contaminated with microbes, people are urged to boil their water before drinking it. Describe for me the effect that heating the water has on the proteins of the microbes and explain how this will make the water safe?

Capuchin
Oct 21, 2008, 07:42 AM
All the info you need is here: Denaturation (biochemistry) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denaturation_(biochemistry))