LAB Biology - file 01
Your wrinkled fingers in water are an ingenious heritage
Do you like bathing? It’s perfect and comfortable to wash away everyday stress at once. Moreover, in modern life, you can enjoy TV programs, YouTube videos, or singing Karaoke while immersing in your bathtub. By the way, when you have forgotten the time and are staying for a long time in a bath, do you notice that your fingers, and toes, too, have wrinkled up? Don’t worry, but this doesn’t ruin your beauty at all!
This biological response is NOT Osmosis, which is a passive result of water soaking into the outer layer of your skin, but in fact, an active biological process.
The Mechanism: How do our fingers and toes wrinkle?