Many toxins and poisons block certain enzymes in the mitochondria. for example, many fruits, including apricots, apples, plums, peaches, and cherries, contain seeds and pits that can cause the formation and release of the poison cyanide if they are ground and ingested. cyanide binds to an enzyme in the inner mitochondrial membrane critical to energy production. why would this be fatal for a cell?
a. cells would not be able to reproduce.
b. cells would not be able to undergo adequate organelle functioning.
c. all of the answer choices are correct.
d. cells could have inadequate distribution of ions.

Some species of wasps are social. the queen starts a colony from scratch each spring. she builds a small nest, and lays and raises a group of female workers. the workers enlarge the nest while the queen continues to lay eggs. unfertilized eggs become males that mate with newly hatched females. all of the wasps except the newly fertilized females die by the summer. which best describes this behavior? a)it is beneficial only to the males that do not fertilize eggs. b)it is beneficial only to the female workers that are not fertilized. c)it is beneficial to each one of the individual colony members. d)it is beneficial to the whole species, but not to all of the individual members.