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    Mashrek International School Investigate the Factors that Affect the Rate of Respiration in Yeast. (Temperature) Fawzi El Ansari Biology HL Title: Investigate the Factors that Affect the Rate of Respiration in Yeast. (Temperature) Aim: The aim of this experiment is to investigate the effect of changing the temperature on the rate of respiration in yeast. This will be done by placing equal amounts of yeast in each beaker that contains the same pH solution. Each beaker will be mixed with glucose

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    Introduction Cell respiration is the process of a cell converting sugars into ATP (energy) in the mitochondrion. It is an essential process which enables organisms to survive and function (Biology Online‚ 2010). Not only does it produce ATP‚ but also carbon dioxide (though decarboxylation)‚ NADH and FADH and in the case of some organisms‚ alcohol. Saccharomyces cerevisia‚ a bacterium commonly known as yeast‚ is used in various aspects of life‚ from winemaking to baking. It respires both anaerobically

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    2011 Affect of Sugars on Yeast Respiration Introduction Cellular respiration can be defined as the release of energy‚ or the breakdown of carbohydrates into carbon dioxide and water1. Cell respiration takes place in the mitochondria of animals and in the cytoplasm of plants. The formula for aerobic cellular respiration is: c6H12O6+ 6O2→6CO2+6H2O Aerobic respiration occurs when oxygen is present‚ while anaerobic respiration occurs when there is no oxygen present. In anaerobic respiration‚ ethanol

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    The graph shows that the respiration rate does increase as the yeast concentration rises‚ but levels off and eventually reached its saturation point‚ or decline‚ which occurs at 8.5g. This decline may occur because there are too many yeast molecules in comparison to the glucose‚ which may lead to yeast cells hindering a collision thus lessening the reaction. The respiration rate increases as more yeast is added because it gives more opportunities for molecular collisions and so the amount of successful

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    Organisms through cellular respiration convert energy into ATP. They do this in three distinct stages; glycolysis‚the Krebs cycle and the electron transport chain. The Krebs cycle and electron transport chain are both aerobic process and require oxygen. In certain conditions where oxygen is not present or is low some organisms switch from cellular respiration into alcoholic or lactic acid fermentation. Fermentation is an anaerobic‚ metabolic pathway used to oxidize nicotinamide adenine

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    process of respiration happens in many organisms and species. For the lab study that we are going to conduct I choose Yeast as my organism. First off Yeast is a microscopic fungus consisting of single oval cells that reproduce by budding or fission (is the splitting of an atom)‚ and capable of converting sugar into alcohol and carbon dioxide. When making your own bread‚ you can buy yeast in the grocery store. The yeast contains little brown grains that will carry out cellular respiration and grow when

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    The Effect of substrate on the Rate of Respiration on Yeast1 Justine Maturan Group 4 Sec. Y – 5L November 18‚ 2014 ________________________________________________________________ 1A scientific paper submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements in General Biology I Laboratory under Prof. Susan Sedano‚ 1st semester 2014-2015 ABSTRACT In order to determine the effect of the substrate on the rate of respiration of yeast‚ Durham test tube method was used in the first experiment

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    Investigate the factors affecting the rate of yeast respiration” Lab Report Introduction The aim of this experiment was to investigate the effect of different amounts of a substrate on the respiration rate of yeast and to compare this to the effect of different amounts of glucose on the rate of yeast respiration. The substrate which I chose to further investigate was fructose. Fructose is a fruit sugar which is one of the three‚ along with glucose and galactose‚ dietary monosaccharides that

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    What affect does the concentration of sugar have on the rate of respiration of yeast? Apparatus: 1. Stopwatch with a resolution of 0.001 seconds 2. 4 test tubes 3. 200 ml of yeast in a beaker 4. 200 ml of glucose solution 5. 500 ml of limewater 6. 2 delivery tubes 7. 1 test tube rack 8. 1 water bath set to 37°C 9. 2 pipettes 10. 3 measuring cylinders with a resolution of 1ml‚ ranging from 0-30ml. 11. 200 ml of water Hypothesis: The higher the concentration

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    Lab 04: Sugar Respiration in Yeast Sugars are vital to all living organisms. The eukaryotic fungi‚ yeast‚ have the ability to use some‚ but not all sugars as a food source by metabolizing sugar in two ways‚ aerobically‚ with the aid of oxygen‚ or anaerobically‚ without oxygen. The decomposition reaction that takes place when yeast breaks down the hydrocarbon molecules is called cell respiration. As the aerobic respiration breaks down glucose to form viable ATP‚ oxygen gas is consumed and carbon

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