of alertness (a CNS effect) but also a higher heart rate‚ blood pressure and respiratory rate. Caffeine also acts as a stimulant drug‚ causing increased amounts of stimulatory neurotransmitters to be released. At high levels of consumption caffeine has been linked to restlessness‚ insomnia and anxiety‚ causing raised stress and blood pressure. This can lead to heart and circulation problems. Hypothesis: Daphnia subjected to a caffeine solution will show a rise in heart rate as caffeine is a stimulant
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release an enzyme called amylase. Amylase is the enzyme found in your saliva. The purpose of this enzyme is to help in the digestion process (McD‚ 2002). Enzymes are biological catalyst that help speed up the reaction by lowering the activation energy. These enzymes allow your food to be digested at a faster rate (National Institute of Asian Medicine‚ 2007). There are many factors that can affect the efficiency of enzymes which include pH levels‚ the amount of substrate‚ inhibitors‚ and temperature
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Introduction I am going to try and measure the rate of respiration in yeast and find out what factors affect the rate of respiration. I am going to change the concentration of the glucose solution and I’m going to measure the volume of gas produced during respiration in cm³. Yeast contains enzymes. Enzymes speed up a chemical reaction – they’re biological catalysts. Yeast can respire both aerobically and anaerobic; the anaerobic respiration of yeast is known as fermentation. The equation for
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Austin Peay State University Department of Chemistry CHEM 1021 BREAKING DOWN STARCH USING SALIVARY AMYLASE Caution: You will be using a Bunsen burner and glassware to create your own constant water bath. Appropriate caution should be exercised when dealing with the Bunsen burner‚ hot water‚ and glassware. Purpose: Many plants store their energy in the form of starch‚ a polysaccharide made from repeating units of the monosaccharide glucose. Our bodie
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graph‚ you can see that there is a relation between the rate of reaction and the surface area. The larger the surface are‚ the faster the rate of reaction seems to be. However‚ although the grain with the largest surface area (the smallest grain) reached the highest point within the shortest amount of time‚ its end result was still lower then the medium sized grain. The explanation for this result is relatively easy. The rate of a chemical reaction can be increased by increasing the size of the surface
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Aim To work out how light intensity can affect the rate of photosynthesis. Hypothesis I think that the further away the light source is the smaller the rate of photosynthesis is. This is because there is a further distance for the light to each the plant in order for it to photosynthesise. Although the closer the light source is‚ the more photosynthesis‚ the light source could also kill or damage the Elodea (type of pondweed) because it could become too hot and denature its cells. But because
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larger enzyme molecule. Moreover‚ the molecule that the enzyme acts upon (substrate) fits precisely into the depression and forms an enzyme-substrate complex. The substrate molecule is held into the active site by bonds that temporarily form between certain amino acids of the active site and groups on the substrate molecule. Enzyme-substrate complex: The enzyme-substrate complex formed when the enzyme binds with its substrate lowers the activation energy (minimum amount of energy needed to activate
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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 of sugar:
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The Effects of Temperature‚ Acetylcholine‚ and Adrenaline on the Heart Rate of Daphnia magna Hieu Duong 6 April 2011 Introduction The heart is a muscular organ that constantly pumps blood throughout the human body. The continuous flow of blood creates a system for vital organs within the body to gain oxygen and nutrients. The timely delivery of oxygen to the body’s organs is very crucial. Brain cells‚ for example‚ will die within minutes if the flow of oxygen is obstructed. For the
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The effects of Visual Distraction on Reaction Time Abstract Distraction has been associated with affecting human reaction time. These associations have been obtained from studies focusing on drivers in particular. Driver distraction is very common nowadays and it is associated with many car crashes (Governors Highway Safety Association‚ 2011). Distraction can take forms in visual‚ cognitive‚ auditory and manual handling of the vehicle. In this study the aim was to test the effects of visual
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