Question

Water's ability to dissolve a wide variety of molecules is important, but more important is the hydrophobic effect, which drives the aggregation of nonpolar molecules and plays a role in the folding of proteins and formation of lipid bilayers. What forces drive the hydrophobic effect?a. Decreased entropy of water is the largest driving force b. Water repels the hydrophobic molecules. c. Increased entropy of water is the largest driving force. d. Hydrophobic molecules are attracted to each other

Answer 1

b. Water repels the hydrophobic molecules.

Step-by-step explanation:

Water has a very strong property of hydrophobic interactions with molecules like protein molecules. When water exerts its hydrophobic force on the proteins molecules, they eventually fold up and take a lipid like micelle formation that helps the proteins in their folding. These interactions are the main reasons that proteins can retain their highly coiled and complex structures stable.