The “Couch Potato” Lifestyle “Couch potato”‚ a slang term to describe a person who spends most of the time sitting or lying on a couch. However‚ sedentary lifestyle is another term which commonly used as a medical term to describe a lifestyle with irregular psychical activities or exercise. People intend to spend more time sitting‚ surfing the internet‚ working on a computer‚ watching television‚ and other activities that do not require much psychical movement or activities. Hence‚ this lifestyle
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Diffusion and Osmosis Introduction Tonicity refers to the concentration of solutes in a solution (Lab 6-7). There are three stages of tonicity: Isotonic‚ hypertonic and hypotonic. Four unknown solutions were given and labeled as followed: Solution A‚ Solution B‚ Solution C‚ and Solution D. Since potato cells were used for this type of experiment‚ in an Isotonic solution the solute and water concentration are the same as inside the cell in which the isotonic solution contains 0.9% NaCl. In other
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Title: Food Energy Lab Report Date of Activity: 8-28-13 through 8-29-13 Purpose: The purpose of the lab was to measure the amount of energy contained in a gram of certain foods. Hypothesis/Prediction: I hypothesize that some of the foods are going to be difficult to burn. Procedure: 1. Weigh the weight of empty can and food items. 2. Fill can approximately one third full of water. 3. Weigh the can after water is in the can. 4. Take the temperature of the water in the can. 5. Place the
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conditions of communist countries. The static number of deaths due to communism is approximately 94 million. Compared to the deaths of the holocaust which would stand at 11 million. 94 million is a to high number‚ when dealing with innocent lives. The Potato Eaters‚ a painting by Vincent Van Gogh‚ a novel by George Orwell published in 1954‚ and “Dog‚” a 1977 song performed by Pink Floyd and written by David Gilmour explore the idea that communists countries have harsh conditions that will be apart of
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Macromolecular Composition of the Liver Cell Formal Report Aims The aim of the experiment was to test for the presence of DNA‚ RNA‚ protein and glycogen in the cytoplasm and the nucleus of bovine liver cells. From the findings of the results the distribution of these macromolecules can be shown within the liver cell. This was carried out by undertaking qualitative experiments‚ where the observation of a colour change was noted and a quantitative experiment‚ where numerical data was recorded from
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diffusion I will be using potato discs‚ of the same size and mass‚ in different concentrations of sugar solution to find out whether the mass of the discs increases or decreases depending on the concentration. I predict that when the sugar solution is 0% the mass will increase as there is less sugar in the water than in the potato. The water will then travel through a partly permeable membrane into the potato from outside. When the sugar solution is 20% the mass of the potato will decrease as there
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INTRODUCTION Enzymes are biological catalysts that speed up chemical reactions‚ without being used up or changed. Catalase is a globular protein molecule that is found in all living cells. A globular protein is a protein with its molecules curled up into a ’ball’ shape. All enzymes have an active site. This is where another molecule(s) can bind with the enzyme. This molecule is known as the substrate. When the substrate binds with the enzyme‚ a product is produced. Enzymes are specific to their
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Osmosis using potato cores and sucrose solution 1.0 Abstract This experiment’s ultimate goal is to find the water potential of the potato cell. This was achieved through placing potato cores in different concentrations of sucrose (0.2%‚ 0.4%‚ 0.6%‚ 0.8%‚ 1.0%‚ 2.0%‚ 3.0% and 4.0%) solution and to observe how much water was gained or lost through osmosis to reach a prediction of the concentration within the potato cell. The results displayed that the concentration of sucrose within the potato cell is
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Abstract The following experiment details the effect of different concentrations of catalase on the production of oxygen and water through the breakdown of Hydrogen Peroxide. In this experiment paper disc where coated in varying concentrations of catalase‚ 0‚ 25‚ 50 75 and 100%. The time taken for the disc to float between two markers on the side of a glass was then recorded. This experiment demonstrates that the higher the concentration of enzyme used the greater the production of oxygen on the
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of a Potato Mishal Hasan Abstract Students in Biology find it difficult to understand the concept of tonicity and osmolarity in a real time situation. In this investigation‚ several concentrations of sucrose were used to determine the osmolarity of a potato. It was found that the concentration of sucrose was close to 3.6 in the potato used showing that it was isotonic. Anything above caused the potato to gain weight showing that it was a hypotonic solution and anything below caused the potato to lose
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