Metabolic Managers: Crisis in the Creamery pages 64 – 67
The following data Illustrates Ms. Hatfield’s test results:
Dairy Product / Complaining customers / Non-complaining customersMilk / Felt ill / Felt fine
Yogurt / Felt fine / Felt fine
Cottage cheese / Felt ill / Felt fine
Cheddar cheese / Felt fine / Felt fine
Questions: Answer the following in a complete, thoughtful way in your journal, not on this sheet!
Metabolic Managers
1. What is the role of enzymes in the cell?
2. What examples of roles enzymes might play can you think of, besides those mentioned in the reading?
3. What might happen if enzymes did not function correctly or were missing?
4. What role do enzymes play in the relationship between the corn a cow takes in and the milk she produces?
Crisis at the Creamery
1. Describe the similarities and differences among yogurt, cottage cheese and cheddar cheese.
Make a little chart. Food / How they are made & processed.
2. Are the symptoms being experienced by some customers the result of a problem in the products being produced by Sun Valley?
Explain your answer.
3. Explain why milk and cottage cheese cause some customers to feel ill, whereas yogurt and cheddar cheese do not.
4. Why do you think some customers have experienced these symptoms, whereas most of them do not?
5. Suggest ways in which Sun Valley might help its customers.
Read the following scenario and answer the questions below:
A ruminant is an animal the “chews it’s cud”. Animals such as cows, goats, giraffes like to dine on grass and other vegetation that is made primarily of cellulose, a tough, fibrous substance, which is a long-chain complex carbohydrate. Animals cannot break down cellulose because they lack the necessary enzyme cellulase, which breaks down cellulose into glucose. However, bacteria that inhabit the stomach of ruminants do produce cellulase. In exchange for room and board, these bacteria help cows and other ruminants break down the cellulose in grass to glucose. The glucose can then be used for energy an building blocks by the cow.
6. Why can ruminants survive by eating grass, whereas humans cannot?
7. In two columns, describe similarities and differences between ruminants and Ms Hatfield’s dilemma.
Metabolic Managers: Crisis in the Creamery pages 64 – 67
The following data Illustrates Ms. Hatfield’s test results:
Dairy Product / Complaining customers / Non-complaining customersMilk / Felt ill / Felt fine
Yogurt / Felt fine / Felt fine
Cottage cheese / Felt ill / Felt fine
Cheddar cheese / Felt fine / Felt fine
Questions: Answer the following in a complete, thoughtful way in your journal, not on this sheet!
Metabolic Managers
1. What is the role of enzymes in the cell?
2. What examples of roles enzymes might play can you think of, besides those mentioned in the reading?
3. What might happen if enzymes did not function correctly or were missing?
4. What role do enzymes play in the relationship between the corn a cow takes in and the milk she produces?
Crisis at the Creamery
1. Describe the similarities and differences among yogurt, cottage cheese and cheddar cheese.
Make a little chart. Food / How they are made & processed.
2. Are the symptoms being experienced by some customers the result of a problem in the products being produced by Sun Valley?
Explain your answer.
3. Explain why milk and cottage cheese cause some customers to feel ill, whereas yogurt and cheddar cheese do not.
4. Why do you think some customers have experienced these symptoms, whereas most of them do not?
5. Suggest ways in which Sun Valley might help its customers.
Read the following scenario and answer the questions below:
A ruminant is an animal the “chews it’s cud”. Animals such as cows, goats, giraffes like to dine on grass and other vegetation that is made primarily of cellulose, a tough, fibrous substance, which is a long-chain complex carbohydrate. Animals cannot break down cellulose because they lack the necessary enzyme cellulase, which breaks down cellulose into glucose. However, bacteria that inhabit the stomach of ruminants do produce cellulase. In exchange for room and board, these bacteria help cows and other ruminants break down the cellulose in grass to glucose. The glucose can then be used for energy an building blocks by the cow.
7. Why can ruminants survive by eating grass, whereas humans cannot?
8. In two columns, describe similarities and differences between ruminants and Ms Hatfield’s dilemma.