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chouchchair t1_ix5rc1m wrote

Not at all. Glucose, for example, is used as an “antifreeze” compound in several organisms. It’s more about increasing the osmolality in the extra cellular fluid. If this is done effectively in an organism, the extra cellular fluid may freeze, but the water content has been mostly drawn out of the cells themselves so they won’t lyse during freezing.

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