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The main function of phosphorus is forming your bones and teeth. It also helps with:
- Muscle contractions
- Normal heartbeat
- Nerve signaling
- Using carbohydrates and fats
- Making protein to grow, maintain, and repair your cells and tissues
- Making adenosine triphosphate (ATP), a molecule that stores energy
- Speeding the healing process and putting a stop to calcium loss from injury
- Helping prevent and treat osteoporosis
- Helping treat or forestall bone diseases like rickets
- Preventing stunted growth in children
- Helping break up and carry away fats and fatty acids in your blood, as well as keeping your blood balanced
- Keeping your nerves from feeling frazzled, and your mind alert and sharp
- Stimulating your glands to secrete hormones
- Keeping your muscles, including your heart, contracting regularly and smoothly
- Helping you digest riboflavin and niacin
- Helping transmit impulses from one nerve to another
- Helping your kidneys effectively excrete wastes
- Giving you stable and plentiful energy
- Forming proteins
- Reducing Arthritis pain
- Fighting cancer
- Phosphorus works with the B vitamins, and it needs proper levels of vitamin D and calcium to function properly.
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∙ 12y agoPhosphorus performs at least three crucial functions in the body:
- It's an essential component in DNA.
- It's an essential part in the energy storage and transfer mechanism.
- It's the "other", seldom mentioned, vital component for bones (everybody knows about calcium, but phosphorus doesn't get mentioned often).
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What causes phosphorus imbalances?
Most phosphorus imbalances develop gradually and are the result of other conditions or disorders, such as malnutrition, poor kidney function, or a malfunctioning gland
What will happen to forms of life if phosphorus stop functioning?
There is really no way for phosphorus to stop working, but if it "disappeared" or something, all life would cease to function. Phosphorus is an integral part of a phosphate group, which is itself crucial to the function of organisms. Adenosine triphosphate, (ATP) is the universal form of energy that all life forms use. It is composed of adenine (a nitrogenous base), and three phosphate groups. Phosphorus is thus crucial to life.
What is the difference between P4 and 4P?
4P means there are 4 separate atoms of phosphorus whiles P4 means there are are 4 atoms in a molecule of phosphorus
Do carbohydrates direct cell function?
yes, but in some cases sulfur or phosphorus may be helpful.
What is the biological function of phosphorus?
Phosphorus is an essential mineral primarily used for growth and repair of body cells and tissues. Phosphorus is commonly found in the body as phosphate. Phosphates play an important role in energy production as components of ATP, or adenosine triphosphate. Phosphorus is a component of deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA, and ribonucleic acid, or RNA, long molecules which carry genetic information. Phosphorus also acts as a buffer, neutralizing acids to maintain normal pH in the blood.
Why is phosphorus named phosphorus?
phosphorus means "bringer of light".
What is the Latin name for phosphorus?
the latin name for phosphorus is phosphorus
Is phosphorus Ionic or convalent bond?
Phosphorus is a nonmetallic element so phosphorus-phosphorus bonds are covalent.
What is an element of the periodic table beginning with p?
Phosphorus
Is phosphorus a mixture a compound or a element?
Phosphorus is an element.
Which common allotropes are red and white?
phosphorus
What is the form of phosphorus?
Phosphorus is a solid. There are various forms, allotropes of phosphorus:-White phosphorus consisting of P4 molecules - most familiar formRed phosphorus with chain structureViolet phosphorus with a complex layer structureBlack phosphorus a metallic looking substance with a layer structure
