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Humans and other animals are made up of what percentage of water

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Answer: 60 percent

Explanation: Water is of major importance to all living things; in some organisms, up to 90% of their body weight comes from water. Up to 60% of the human adult body is water. According to H.H. Mitchell, Journal of Biological Chemistry 158, the brain and heart are composed of 73% water, and the lungs are about 83% water.

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60%

Step-by-step explanation:

most of the things in are body are actully compressed with water and we rely on water to survive but if we were 100% water well we would be water

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