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level: Level 1 of Toxin Effects of Terrestrial Animals

Questions and Answers List

Question	Answer
- animals that are capable of producing a poison because of highly developed secretory glands or group of cells that can deliver their toxin during biting or stinging - Ex: snakes, box jellyfish, scorpion, cone snail, spider	Venomous animals
Function of Venoms in animals	1 It may play a role in offense 2 To capture and digest of food Ex: Venomous spiders (During eating, they can bite their prey and paralyzed and extract the body fluids) 3 It may contribute to the animals defense as in protection against predators or aggressors
- They derived their toxins through the food chain - The poison is often a product of their metabolisms and sometimes concentrated as it passes through food chain from one animal to another - Have tissues as a part or as a whole body is toxic - Don't have any mechanism or structure to deliver their poisons	Poisonous animals
toxins or poisons that produced by animals is a result from the __ and this is produced as a result of their __	food chain, metabolism
Properties of Animal Toxins:	● Composition ● Molecular size= can increase the absorption of the substance ● Amount or concentration gradient= increase absorption process, unionized ● Solubility, degree of solubilization ● And the rate of blood flow into that tissue ● The properties of the engulfing surface itself ● Pinocytosis
Venoms are absorbed by the body through what mechanisms?	1 active transport 2 passive transport , 3 facilitated diffusion and 4 pinocytosis