The beetles that died were unable to avoid or detoxify the chemical and were thus killed by nerve poison insecticides.
- Chemicals called insecticides are used to kill insects or stop them from acting in an unwanted or destructive way. Their structure and mechanism of operation are used to categorize them.
- Most insecticides function by interfering with the insect's nervous system. The herbicide prevents neurotransmitters in synapses from transmitting information.
- Acetylcholine is the name of the substance that the body produces and uses to transmit information through synapses. Muscles can relax because of an enzyme called cholinesterase that binds to acetylcholine.
- Through the synapses, acetylcholine communicates with the muscles. The cholinesterase is impacted when a pesticide is administered at a deadly dose for a specific body, preventing it from binding with the acetylcholine.
- The muscles become overstimulated as a result, which will cause paralysis and death.
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Enzymes are biological catalysts and are quite temperature specific. They operate optimally within a certain range of temperature. At lower temperatures, their activities decrease and they become inactive at extremely low temperatures. At higher temperatures, their activities are initially promoted but as temperatures get higher, their activities become zero due to the fact that they become denatured.
A. <em>The optimum temperature for amylase activity is 37</em>
<em>, hence, when the student had the first test tube at this temperature, the rate of reaction of the enzyme is optimal. The maximum amount of starch would be broken down into maltose.</em>
B.<em> At 0 degrees, the enzyme would become inactive and the rate of reaction becomes minimal or even zero due to the inactivity of the enzyme. At 60 degrees, the rate of reaction also becomes zero because the enzyme would have been denatured by the high temperature.</em>
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D.) The weeds will become tolerant to the herbicide through repeated exposure.
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Explanation:
Meiosis is a form of cell division that occurs in the sex cells of organisms. It ensures the reduction of a diploid cell to an haploid cell to allow for the formation of a diploid zygote after fertilization (contribution of both parents haploid sex cells to give a diploid zygote). Thus, this process is very essential and important.
The reduction is accomplished by 2 divisions after the duplication of chromosomes
- first division: separation of homologous pairs of chromosomes (this reduces the total in half)
- second division: separation of sister chromatids of a chromosome.
The rearrangement in meiosis occurs by crossing over/genetic recombination.
This is the exchange of genetic material between homologous pairs of chromosome bringing about a rearrangement and genetic variation
An example of a chromosomal abnormality that arises as a result of defects in this process is the Down Syndrome which is caused by a nondisjunction of the chromosomes 21 pair in a sex cell.
This condition produces offsprings that have some characteristic facial features, short stature etc
