I M Looking Over Case Study

Part I – “I’m Looking Over...”

Exercise 1-

Minnesota has an average monthly temperature range of between −19.4° and 28.6° C. It has very hot summers, sometimes going as high as 45.6° C, and extremely cold winters, the temperature can go as low as −51° C. Minnesota has a lot of days with freezing temperature (154), and hardly any days with warm weather (14). Minnesota also gets an average of 66-76 cm of precipitation yearly, and has a small population of herbivores, which are not present during the winter.

On the other hand, North Carolina has an average monthly temperature range of between −2.6° to 31.3° C. The summers are very hot (high is 43.3° C), while the winters are pretty cold (low is −37° C), but these weather conditions aren’t as sever as Minnesota’s. North Carolina has 38 days with very warm weather (above 32° C*) and 75 days with very cold weather (below 0°

If cyanide was produced in a plant, then the plant cells would die because cyanide is such a powerful poison. Cyanide inhibits enzymes in the mitochondrial electron transport chain, and because of that it blocks electron transport. If there is no electron transport chain, then most organisms cannot produce ATP. Without the ability to produce ATP, it quickly leads to death.

b) One way these products can come together to make active CN in nature is during winter/spring when the clover freezes. When the clover freezes the cell membrane can burst and the cyanide-sugar complex and enzymes will be exposed, and then can combine with each other and produce cyanide. Another way is if an herbivore consumes the clover, because in the process of eating the herbivore will destroy the membranes of the cell, and the two gene products will combine and produce