Red Cabbage Indicator Aim – To create a pH indicator out of a red cabbage solution and to construct a basic pH scale to determine the pH of unknown solutions. Materials - • red cabbage leaves • 250 mL beaker • hotplate or Bunsen burner‚ tripod‚ gauze mat and bench mat • 10 test-tubes – equal size • test-tube rack Methods - Part A: Making the indicator 1. Tear up one or two red cabbage leaves‚ and place them in the beaker with enough water so that the cabbage is just covered. 2. Heat the beaker
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Buffers‚ and pH‚ and Diffusion oh my The pH of a solution is the measure of the concentration of charged Hydrogen ions in that given solution. A solution with a pH lower than seven is considered to be acidic. A solution with a higher pH is a base. It is very important for organisms to maintain a stable pH. Biological molecules such as proteins function only at a certain pH level and any changes in pH can result in them not functioning properly. To maintain these constant pH levels‚ buffer solutions
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------------------------------------------------- COLORIMETRIC DETERMINATION OF pH ------------------------------------------------- Abstract This experiment examined the result of the various color indicators combined with different buffer solution‚ thereby testing the precision and accuracy of determining the pH value colorimetrically. Colorimetric method is a simple and practical procedure with an important advantage: they do not get out of order as from time to time do the pH-meters. Four buffers (Acetate buffer‚ phosphate
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3 Yeast Metabolism Metabolism refers to the biochemical assimilation (in anabolic pathways) and dissimilation (in catabolic pathways) of nutrients by a cell. Like in other organisms‚ in yeast these processes are mediated by enzymic reactions‚ and regulation of the underlying pathways have been studied in great detail in yeast. Anabolic pathways include reductive processes leading to the production of new cellular material‚ while catabolic pathways are oxidative processes which remove electrons
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Self-design Practical: The effect of pH on enzyme activity Rationale Amylase is an enzyme involved in the digestion system which catalyses the breakdown of starch into sugars. It is not only present in human saliva but also in the pancreas‚ where it hydrolyses dietary starch into disaccharides and trisaccharides which are converted by other enzymes to glucose to supply the body with energy. pH has an effect on the activity of all enzymes‚ including amylase. As the pH level increases‚ the enzyme
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of Glucose in Yeast Cells Glucose is absorbed across the cell surface membrane (plasma membrane) of most cells. A convenient way to investigate this is to use a solution of glucose and a suspension of yeast cells. The amount of glucose taken up from the glucose solution by yeast cells in a fixed length of time can be measured. At the end of the fixed length of time‚ further uptake of glucose is prevented by transferring the yeast suspension to a boiling water bath to kill the yeast cells. If the
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3A Task 1 Aim: the aim of the experiment is to find the best temperature to ferment yeast at. Hypothesis: the yeast will ferment the best at 60 degrees Celsius. Independent variable: the temperature of the water the yeast is put in to ferment. Dependent variable. The amount of air bubbles the yeast produces. Controlled variable: the amount of yeast and glucose in each syringe. Uncontrolled variables: human error in counting. Materials : Plastic soft drink bottle cut to size Marking pen
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Comparing the Rate of Fermentation of Yeast in Solutions with Different Concentrations of Glucose Brandon Bosley BIO 121 11/19/2013 Introduction: In our lab this week we tried to see how different amounts of substrates affect our organism‚ yeast‚ in its fermentation process. Yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) is an organism that is cultured for the cells themselves‚ as well as the end products that they produce during fermentation. Yeasts are commonly known for the ethanol fermentation due
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The methylene blue staining procedure is used to measure yeast viability based on the assumption that the methylene blue will enter the cells and be broken down by living yeast cells that produce the enzymes which breaks down methylene blue‚ leaving the cells colourless. The non- viable cells do not produce this enzyme (or enzymes) and as such the methylene blue that enters the cells are undegraded causing the cells to remain coloured (the oxidized form concentrates intracellularly). The coloured
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Introduction When using different methods to measure pH levels there are some tools that can be useful. Some more than others but by putting into action the different methods it may determine which tools will work best and give the best results when testing the pH within a solution. The pH‚ which stands for the proportion of hydrogen ions in a solution‚ could be acidic (acidosis)‚ neutral or basic (alkaline). The pH scale goes from numbers 1 through 14. A pH of 7 is neutral; meaning the amount of hydrogen
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