All organisms on earth depend on photosynthesis‚ in which light energy is used to make sugar and other food molecules from carbon dioxide and water. For example‚ plants and other photo-synthesizers need only energy from sunlight‚ carbon dioxide from air‚ and water from the soil to make the sugar glucose. Photosynthesis is the most important chemical process on earth because it provides food for virtually all organisms‚ not only for photo-synthesizers but for the organisms that eat them. Plants can
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Factors Affecting Fermentation of Glucose by Yeast Introduction: Fermentation is anaerobic respiration whereby food is altered into more simple compounds and energy in the form of chemicals is produced‚ an example being adenosine triphosphate (biology-online.org/dictionary/Fermentation). All this occurs with the lack of atmospheric oxygen. At the end of the day alcohol and carbon dioxide are the end products when yeast is used in the fermentation procedure. But end products like acetic acid
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Brittany Snell Nielson Bio 110 Oct-11-2013 Cellular Respiration All living organisms need energy to function and we get this energy from the foods we eat. The most efficient way for cells to harvest energy stored in food is through cellular respiration. Cellular respiration is defined as the aerobic harvesting of chemical energy from organic fuel molecules. Cellular respiration occurs in eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells. It has three main stages: glycolysis‚ the
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Cellular respiration is the process of obtaining energy in order to produce ATP. Cells obtain energy for their metabolic reactions. Cellular respiration includes both aerobic and anaerobic processes. Aerobic is when oxygen is consumed as a reactant and an aerobic is without oxygen. There are three phases in cellular respiration glycolysis‚ Krebs cycle‚ and the electron transport chain. Glycolysis is the first stage and
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Measuring the efficiency of various carbohydrate substrates in yeast fermentation. Cherrishe Brown October 3‚ 2007 Dieldrich Bermudez BSC 2010L Sect# 0560 Discussion As expected in the experiment Glucose‚ Fructose‚ and Sucrose were all utilized for fermentation. Based on the rate of evolution of CO2 the yeast was most efficiently able to utilize the substrate Glucose‚ followed by Sucrose and Fructose respectively. Given more time I believe that Sucrose would have surpassed glucose in total
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FlowCAM® Application Note #105 Yeast Viability Measurements in Fermentation Studies Objective An important component of fermentation processes is to continually monitor yeast growth and viability. The most common method for doing this is using the ASBC hemocytometer count method. In this method‚ samples are taken from the fermentation vessel‚ stained with methylene blue‚ and then counted manually under a microscope using a hemocytometer. While this method is well known and documented
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ids Acids‚ Bases‚ Buffers and Respiration Darlene E. McDonald WCCC Fall 2012 Ap Lab 071-07 Dr. Roxanne Levandosky August 31‚ 2012 I. INTRODUCTION: A.PURPOSE: a. To define and understand the key terms. ~acid ~buffer system ~base ~acidosis ~pH ~alkalosis ~pH scale ~hypoventilation ~pH indicators ~hyperventilation b. To determine the acidic or base nature and actual pH of various substances. c. To discuss the formation of the carbonic acid/bicarbonate ion
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The drug “dinitrophenol” (DNP) was prescribed by some physicians in the 1940’s to help patients lose weight. This unsafe method was abandoned after a few patients died. DNP uncouples the chemiosmotic machinery by making the lipid bilayer of the inner mitochondrial membrane leaky to H+. Explain how this could cause weight loss. In chemiosmosis‚ NADH are passed along the electron transport chain‚ with energy used to pump protons across the inner mitochondrial membrane. As the protons are transferred
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Abstract The hypothesis states that plants respire at a faster rate if they are exposed to wind‚ opposed to no wind. This was tested by putting one plant in water in front of a fan and the other plant in water‚ but with no fan. The results showed that the plant in front of the fan transpired more. However‚ since the plant blew cold air it affected the rate of transpiration and altered the experiment. Overall‚ this experiment supports the hypothesis that wind makes plants transpire more.
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Cellular Respiration vs. Photosynthesis To obtain energy needed for life‚ organisms depend on the processes of cellular respiration and photosynthesis. Though they share the same function of changing energy from one form to another‚ there are many differences between cellular respiration and photosynthesis in regard to the input and output molecules‚ energetics‚ cellular location‚ and ecological importance. The chemical equations of cellular respiration and photosynthesis are opposites. The
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