Multiple Choice
Plants can produce the respiratory poison cyanide without poisoning themselves because plants
A) do not respire.
B) store a cyanide precursor in one compartment and activating enzymes in another.
C) store water-soluble cyanide in laticifers.
D) possess enzymes that are unaffected by cyanide.
E) also produce proteins that bind and inhibit cyanide.
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