The spines of the cactus have several functions, which are the following:
To defend them from possible predators: inside the body of the plants there is a great deal of water; if herbivores could access it, these plants would not survive.
To provide them with shade: it is true that not much, but it is enough so that the loss of water by evaporation is minimal.
Reflect sunlight: many species have white spines.
Answer:
Loss of cell wall integrity or
Explanation:
Grams staining i a staining method used to classify bacteria into two main classes. Gram positive and Gram negative.
They are differentiated according to the ability of their cell wall to retain the primary stain color of the crystal violet stain or the counter stain pink.
Bacillus subtilis is a Gram positive bacteria hence it is supposed to stain purple.
Therefore, when it stained pink is an error. it shows loss of the cell wall integrity due to old age, overdecolorization or over fixing with heat.
Answer:
They contain fewer double bonds.
Explanation:
Coconut oil contain saturated lauric acid, saturated myristic acid, saturated caprylic acid, saturated decanoic acid and unsaturated oleic acid.
Palm oil contains saturated myristic, palmitic and steric acid. It also contains oleic monounsaturated acid and linoleic polyunsaturated acid.
They are semisolid at room temperature. Oil is that type of lipids which is liquid at room temperature due to the presence of saturated fatty acid. Both type of oil mention in text have high degree of saturation and are semi solid at room temperature .
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