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Lesson: Chapter 1 — The Chemical Basis of Life

1.2. Proteins 3 of 12

Question 3

By composition, roughly how much of a mature human body is protein material?

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About 17%. After water, protein is the most abundant substance in the body.

7% is the share taken by mineral salts, and 65% is oxygen's share of the body by element — a different measurement altogether.

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