Question

given your answers to question 7 and 8, how does the concept of metabolic pools relate to the survival of both monarchs and milkweed?

Answer 1

Metabolic pool is the total amount or size of biomolecules on which enzymes act on. The larger the size of the metabolic pool the maximum is the metabolic rate, which in turn supports the life of the living organism.
Monarch butterflies and the milkweed plants are the symbionts to one to each other. Milkweeds provide the nectar that is necessary for the monarch butterflies as it’s food. In return the monarch butterflies help the milkweed plants for their pollination, which make these milkweed plants to spread more.
Milkweed is the broad leaves having plant. Monarch butterflies use the leaves of the milkweed plants as their nursery to lay their eggs on the underside of the leaves of the milkweed plant. The caterpillars of the monarch feed on the leaves of the milkweed plants.
Thus, without milkweeds caterpillars can’t survive. The leaves of the milkweed plants are mildly toxic, so that even the caterpillars also become little bitter prey for their predators.
In order the fourth generation of monarch butterflies to be watched by our future generations, the plantation of the milkweed plant is essential.
Thus the metabolic pool of the monarchs and the milkweed plants make the survival of both the species possible by making them dependent on one to each other.