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Ap Bio Lab 2.1 Lab Report

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Travis Carlton Bio Lab 2 4/5/2018 1a. Carboxyl functional group which is an acid sugar 1b. Aldehyde functional group which belongs to carbohydrates 1c. Alcohol functional group which belongs to carbohydrates 2a. Positive (red) 2b. Negative (blue) 2c. Negative (blue) 2d. Negative (dark blue) 2e. Negative (green/yellow) 2f. Positive (red) 3a. Negative (red brown/amber) 3b. Negative (brown) 3c. Positive (black) 3d. Positive (black) 3e. Positive (dark brown) 3f. Positive (dark brown) 3g. Positive (milky dark brown) Ps: the iodine was already really dark so it was very hard to see much difference between the control and the others. 4a. Positive 4b. Positive 4c. Negative 4d. Negative 4e. Negative 4f. Positive 4g. Negative …show more content…

Sucrose 16a. A water molecule gets added to a disaccharide to split it into two monosaccharides. 16b. This reaction is called hydrolysis. 17. Lard probably has more hydrogen atoms. Saturated fats are called saturated because they hold the maximum hydrogen atoms. These fats are solid at room temperature so if one is staying solid and the other is not then the lard must have more saturated fats than the butter. 18a. muscles 18b. cells 19. A simplistic example of using some of this labs information in everyday life could be when I get acid reflux. Although it rarely happens to myself since I am fairly meticulous with my food choices and quantities, it can still creep up on me, and usually when this happens, like lots of people I go for the antacids. However, I think after this lab I may reconsidered the amount used, or throw the thought out completely since I now know that pH levels can affect how enzymes function. The stomach is a highly acidic pH environment and to try to offset the acid reflux the antacids are ingested since they are a base and will bring the pH levels up on the pH scale. The heightened level on the scale will help to lessen the stomach acid from wreaking havoc on your esophagus. Although this seems good, little do we realize that the antacids are also going to cause an enzyme in the stomach, pepsin, to not work correctly or at all since it needs an acidic environment to function properly. Pepsin is an enzyme responsible for protein breakdown into polypeptides, which will later be broken down into amino acids in the small intestine. I think since protein is the building block of all cells, I would think it would be best to keep this enzyme working efficiently. This is just one of the enzymes in the body being affected by altered pH levels, and other enzymes have their own requirements of pH levels to work properly as

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