pH and buffers Worksheet

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Foundations of C&M Biology Summer 2020 Worksheet 1 pH and buffers Worksheet Name: Please complete the following worksheet and upload it through the blackboard link if you used a website or article to answer some of the questions, please cite them. 1- Define the following: - pH - Buffer - pKa 2- Use the graph below (titration of glycine with NaOH) to answer the following questions: a. Complete figure axes. Name the X-axis and Y-axis in the figure. b. Identify the pKa values in the plot by writing the number and identifying them with an arrow. c. Why does glycine have buffering ability? d. Would glycine be good physiological buffer? Describe, stepwise, how you would prepare 0.5 L of a 0.15 M phosphate buffer, pH 12.5, using K 3 PO 4 ·H 2 O (f.w. = 230.28) and K 2 HPO 4 (f.w. = 174.18). pH = pKa + log [A - ] [HA] H 3 PO 4     H 2 PO 4 - + H + pKa 1 = 2.12
Foundations of C&M Biology Summer 2020 Worksheet 1 H 2 PO 4 -   HPO 4 -2 + H + pKa 2 = 6.8 HPO 4 2-    PO 4 -3 + H + pKa 3 = 12.32 3- What is the enzyme that catalyzes the reaction CO 2 + H 2 O H 2 CO 3 in human tissues,including blood? 4- Since this reaction takes place in the absence of the enzyme, what is the physiological advantage in having such enzyme in the blood? [Hint: find what the turnover number is for this enzyme.] 5- This enzyme is also found in chloroplasts. What do you think the role of this enzyme is in plants?
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