1. In one sentence for each resource - water‚ food and oxygen – explain how this resource helps provide power to the human body. Oxygen- Provides energy to all parts of the body along with Glucose Food-Delivers calories and carbohydrates to the body giving it energy Water-allows for hydration and refueling of the blood in our bodies 2. What factors do you think influence how long your body can last without food‚ water or oxygen? Factors of this would include your environment‚ your
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BSC 120 Glucose Effect on Diabetic and Non Diabetic Blood Abstract: This lab was developed to investigate blood glucose and diabetes. Diabetes is a lifelong chronic disease in which there are high levels of sugar in the blood (Diabetes). The spectrophotometer was applied to this lab to determine the absorbance of blood glucose in diabetic and non-diabetic blood samples. In order to prove this‚ tests were conducted by taking the blood samples at different times right before a meal was eaten then
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DETERMINING THE GLUCOSE CONTENT OF AND ORANGE USING GOD-PAP ASSAY Every fruit has a sweet taste only that some are sweeter than others. The sweetness of most fruits come from its sugar content and these sugars that the fruits contain are known as invert sugars. In this experiment‚ an orange was used. An orange which is an excellent source of vitamin C gets its sweetness from natural sugars which are sucrose‚ glucose and fructose (livestrong.com). In this experiment the concentration of glucose in an orange
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very high and low pH will have adverse effect on the plasma membrane. SDS (Sodium dodecyl sulfate) is a detergent. From our back-round information we can learn that soaps and detergents tend to solubilize the lipids of the cell membrane causing cells to lyse. So overall we can assume that all three are going to cause the plasma cell membrane of the red cabbage to break down. Which one‚ HCl/NaOH/SDS‚ will have the most adverse effect on the plasma membrane? I believe that the acid will have the most
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209504496 Date of Practical: 11 April 2013 Inductively Coupled Plasma – Atomic Emission Spectroscopy Aim The aim of this practical was to use an ICP-OES to perform a multi-elemental analysis of different types of tea. The elements that were analysed in the tea were copper‚ iron‚ manganese and magnesium. The sample is introduced into the plasma as an aerosol. Argon gas flows through three concentric quartz tubes in the plasma torch. This argon gas transports the sample from the nebulizer‚ acts
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The glycolysis pathway is nearly universal in biological systems. Glycolysis is the sequence of reactions that converts glucose to pyruvate with the concomitant formation of ATP. Three fates of this pyruvate produced exist. In this practical the production of pyruvate and acetaldehyde by fermentation of glucose is established. A series of test tubes was set up each containing glucose and yeast suspension in buffers at different pH values. These test tubes were incubated for an hour at 37℃. Trichloro-acetic
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THE EFFECT OF GLUCOSE CONCENTRATION ON ANAEROBIC RESPIRATION IN YEAST INTRODUCTION: Yeast‚ also known as a saccharomyces cerevisiae‚ is single celled eukaryotic cells that are in the kingdom fungi and are unicellular organisms which normally reproduce asexually by budding at a very high rate. Scientists quite often decide to work with yeast because of its features fast growing rate and the fact that yeast ’s DNA can be easily manipulated. Some types of yeast can be found naturally on plant or in
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Respiration is the process by which energy is released energy from glucose in the presence of Oxygen‚ forming carbon dioxide and water as waste products. Glucose releases energy in a series of reactions that take place inside components of the cell. The stages are briefly explained below as were briefly explained in part A‚ the process then goes through‚ glycolosis‚ link reaction and then the Krebs cycle. The volume of CO2 that is produced in the Krebs cycle is important as this is the dependant
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Continuous Glucose Monitoring Alyssa M. Hughes Grand Canyon University: NRS-410 June 13‚ 2015 Poorly controlled blood glucose levels in the presence of diabetes exposes patients with diabetes to many secondary complications such as stroke‚ high blood pressure‚ peripheral vascular disease and kidney disease. New technologies such as continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) can help patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes manage their disease better. This assignment identifies a research article that
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Glucose Intake Experiment In ruminants‚ starch is enzymatic hydrolyzed digested to glucose which is highly energetically efficient and absorbed by brush border membrane in small intestinal. In order to better understanding of digestion and absorption of glucose in the ruminants‚ they did a lot of experiments on three kinds of ruminate‚ cow‚ calf and sheep. Determining from different aspects such as mRNA expression‚ protein expression and enzyme activity‚ hormone content‚ glucose intake and
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