WHY DOES THE COLOUR LEAK OUT OF COOKED BEETROOT? PLAN Hypothesis Temperature has an effect on the leaking of the colour from beetroot. This means that as the temperature is altered there will be a change in the rate of colour leakage. Scientific Background Beetroot is a very familiar vegetable and is commonly known as beet. It is famous in most recipe books that advice that its outer skin is not to be removed to avoid getting red dye in the cooking water. If we look at the internal structure
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Lab activity 1: Effect of temperature‚ concentration‚ and pressure on equilibrium Introduction Our ongoing discussion has been on systems at dynamic equilibrium: for a reversible reaction‚ the rate of the forward reaction is equal to the rate of the reverse reaction. What happens if equilibrium is disturbed? In this lab activity‚ we are going to examine the effect of changing reaction conditions on the position of equilibrium. Part I: Effect of temperature We will consider the equilibrium
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The Domino Effect 9-26-01 Abstract: In this experiment dominos were used to investigate how distance‚ time‚ and average speed is interrelated by maximizing the speed of falling dominoes. This was done by lining up 28 dominos up against a meter stick 0.5 cm‚ 1.0 cm‚ 1.5 cm‚ 2.0 cm‚ and 2.5 cm away from each other. Before the experiment the average width of a domino was taken. At the beginning of each of these 5 trials the dominos were lined up against the meter stick. The lengths of all the dominoes
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Piezoresistive effect is a change of electrical resistance of a conductor under axial strain. One of the main quantitative variables of piezoresistive effect is strain gauge factor (SGF). SGF is relative change of electrical resistance divided to mechanical strain (relative change of the length of the conductor). Commercial strain gauges
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ABSTRACT Enzymes are biological catalysts; they cause reactions to happen that would not normally occur due to the activation energy that would be required. They bring together substrates and cause chemical reactions that are essential for life. Without enzymes life processes‚ and life in of itself‚ would not be possible. Enzymes are also special because very little of the actual enzyme is actually used up in the reaction. In this lab two different factors‚ temperature and pH‚ were tested to see
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Year 11 IB Biology IA Report 2011 5/31/2011 Enzyme Activity Experiment Introduction 3 AIM 3 Materials 3 Method 4 Result 5 Table 1: 5 Table 2: 5 Graph 1 6 Discussion 6 Conclusion 8 Bibliography 9 Appendix 1 (Test tube 3- 45 degrees) 9 Appendix 2 (Test tube 1- 5 degrees) 9 Appendix 3 (Test tube 2- 20 degrees) 9 Introduction Phenolphthalein is an indicator that is pink in alkaline solutions of about pH10. When the pH drops below pH 8.3 phenolphthalein will
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of this lab was to compare the action of a catalyst (enzyme) under different environmental conditions. This was determined by performing a variety of different experiments. The first experiment was performed by adding hydrogen peroxide to sand. Due to the fact that the sand was not soluble in the hydrogen peroxide‚ no reaction thus no catalyst were present. Manganese dioxide was also added to the hydrogen peroxide creating a moderately fast reaction thus leading to believe that an enzyme was present
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attempt to observe how enzymes (starch phosphorylase in particular) are affected by varying its temperature before introducing it to the substrate it will be reacting with. A catalyst (enzyme) is a substance that changes the rate of a reaction; for a reaction to take place at all‚ the enzyme must first come into contact with the substrate. Enzymes are subject to a number of factors which effect how fast they can cause a reaction with a substrate; these factors include temperature‚ pH levels‚ chemical
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Enzymes are biological catalysts and each individual enzyme can only catalyse to one type of reaction – due to its specific shape. Each individual enzyme has its own specific shape which is determined by the amino acid sequence that it is made up of – each enzyme’s active site matches to its unique substrate molecule. For the sake of our experiment – enzymes catalyse reactions because they become an active site for reactions to take place. This lowers the energy that is needed for the reaction but
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Practical 2.1- The Effect of Temperature on Membranes Objective To investigate the effect of temperature on membrane structure Introduction Beetroot Pigments Beetroots contain Betalains which are the red pigments present in the cell vacuole. Betalains are soluble in water and they contain nitrogen. Betalains extracted from beetroot is commonly used as food dye because it is not known to cause any allergic reactions. Beetroot Picture taken from http://tipdeck/how-to-cook-beet-root Structure
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