BIOCHEMISTRY
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Our blood and other bodily fluids might become too acidic or basic.
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Our stomach acid would not be able to break down food.
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We would not be able to process glucose within our cells.
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We would not be able to inhale oxygen into our lungs.
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Detailed explanation-1: -What might happen if buffers did not exist within the human body? Our blood and other bodily fluids might become too acidic or basic. Our stomach acid would not be able to break down food. We would not be able to process glucose within our cells.
Detailed explanation-2: -Our blood and other bodily fluids might become too acidic or basic. For instance, the buffer in blood is the carbonic acid and bicarbonate buffer. Without this buffer, blood would not have its optimal pH value.
Detailed explanation-3: -The purpose of a buffer in a biological system is to maintain intracellular and extracellular pH within a very narrow range and resist changes in pH in the presence of internal and external influences.
Detailed explanation-4: -The concentration of carbon dioxide increases when blood is acidic. This results in decreased of the blood. It causes the release of oxygen from the Haemoglobin proteins and thus, the binding of oxygen with Haemoglobin decreases, resulting the body parts get lesser oxygen than required.