Thursday, March 13, 2008

Mitch Bach -- March 10, 2008 -- 3/3

What We Did
  • Handed in Bottle Biosphere Project
  • Chalk and talk with anaerobic and aerobic Cellular Resperation
  • Questions that were not for marks

Thoughts and Opinions:

When we were discussing lactic acid, I wondered if there was some kind of a lethal dose of it, a set amount that could kill an average human. I also wondered if there were any animals that naturally perform cellular resperation anaerobically.

Above and Beyond

According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactic_acid, the highest that it can potentially rise to is 20 mmol/L. Through my understanding, anything greater then that could cause toxic effects, even though lactate doesn't act like a "real" acid. The only kinds of animals/micro-organisms that perform anaerobic are obligate anearobes and facultatave anearobic organisms.