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Chapter 5: Cell Respiration and Metabolism


Critical Thinking Activities

Chapter 5: Cell Respiration and Metabolism

  1. If you are frightened and have run rapidly for a short distance, you will probably be breathing hard. Will your cells be making more or less lactic acid than they would have normally? Why?

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  2. Cyanide combines irreversibly with cytochrome a3. What impact would cyanide poisoning have on the high energy-requiring heart and brain?

    Answer

  3. The formula for octane, the principal component in gasoline, is C8H18. How would the oxygenation of octane compare to a fatty acid?

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  4. If you were marooned on a rocky desert island with no food, what would your breath start smelling like?

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  5. You have foolishly gotten stuck on that same island as before, still with no food but this time you did bring along materials to test your urine. What luck! As you slowly starve, you test your urine and you discover what about it?

    Answer

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