Why are the poisons dangerous???

Question

i wanna a serious answer

Answer 1

that depends on the poison, but most block certain cellular activities, llike the conversion of food into sugar or the conversion of that sugar into energy etc.

Answer 2

Hi I look this into web but really i am not able to get the answer we know dangerous but why. I never though of. I al really waiting for the answer of your question too.

All the best dude

Answer 3

poison is dangerous because It will be a possible for chemicals to affect the body's motor nerve receptors, thereby making movement impossible, or in other words is paralyzes,when the body motor nerve receptor were stop it is not possible for body activity to carry out, like Heart, Brain(black out), lungs(stop breathing) then died.

Answer 4

Poison is dangerous because poison can harm you, make you ill, have diahorrea puke and all sorts of sick stuff or kill u.

Answer 5

Because they disturb the normal function of body. Poisons are proteins with structures similar to normal body proteins therefore they are able to connect to the same receptors 9sometimes even better than normal proteins) and cause an interruption in normal body functions such as breathing and maintaining a regular heartbeat.

Answer 6

Lots of different poisons do different things - but they all interfere with important functions of our body.

For example, they might interfere with the subconscious control over limb position (tetanus toxin, or strychnine), and cause muscle spasms - suffocating us because we cannot expand our ribs to breathe.

Or they might do the opposite - preventing us moving any muscles at all (botulinum toxin, or atropine) - again suffocating us.

Or they might irreversibly bind to proteins in our liver cells, causing liver poisoning and a slow, lingering death (phalloidin).

Or they might interfere with blood clotting, causing us to haemorrage from our orifices (snake venom disintegrins).

Or they might interfere with the function of specific nerves, causing hallucinations and/or death (hallucinogens and neurotoxins).

Or they might just *kill* nerve cells - causing cumulative paralysis (acrylamide).

Or they might inhibit the respiratory pathways in our cells - caysing us to be unable to generate energy in our cells, and meaning our brains and hearts stop working (cyanide, azide)

Or they might bind to our immune cells, causing all of them to activate at once and our bodies to go into systemic immune shock, or "anaphalaxis" (bacterial superantigens)

The list goes on...

Answer 7

I don't know about all but some poisons  affect our nerves