Critical Thinking Activities - Chapter 6

  1. In the days before refrigeration became widespread, people would preserve meat in powdered salt. How would this process prevent most types of decay?

  2. The liver stores many molecules of glucose in the form of one molecule of glycogen. How does this relate to tonicity?

  3. Design an experiment to prove that cells are using active transport rather than osmosis or some other passive means.

  4. Lethal injections during a legal execution include a high concentration of KCl. Why is this salt included?


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