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9 years ago
A friend of yours has come up with a new idea for people who don’t have time to eat. She has developed a high-powered Blenderizer that breaks food up into very small particles. She has tested her product on amoeba and Paramecia. Both of these single-celled organisms can pick up these small particles and incorporate them into food vacuoles. Your friend is hoping to market the Blenderizer to busy people who could “blenderize” their food and use an IV bag and tube to run the food directly into their blood system. Your friend comes to you for advice and possible financial support to get her idea off the ground. What would you say to her?
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9 years ago
Anyone who used this system would probably die. The proteins and other species-specific macromolecules of the food would be recognized by the immune system as foreign. A massive immune response could block the circulatory system and lead to stroke or heart attacks. To avoid these problem, digestion breaks down the polypeptides, polysaccharides, and other macromolecules in food into their constituent monomers, which are used across species.
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