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as sugars and starch, can be directly oxidised in biofuel cells to generate electricity. In some cases, pretreatment of the biomass may be required. For example, cellulose can first be hydrolysed by cellulose to produce glucose. In microbial biofuel cells, utilisation of glucose for energy generation achieved a high efficiency.

What the pancreas does: The pancreas produces the hormones insulin and glucagon. These help to maintain the correct level of blood-glucose. Small masses of special cells called islets of Langeryhans produce them, which are spread throughout the pancreas. Pancreatic juice in continually being produced but the production increases when there is food there. The pancreatic juice is an alkaline as it contains sodium bicarbonate which lowers how acid from the food. The pancreatic juice also contains the

conclusion for each content. For the unknowns, we wrote the odor and appearance of each content and then tested the benedict’s, starch, lipid, and protein test and wrote our conclusion. The overall results mostly support my hypothesis. I was right about glucose and honey having starch but left out hamburger. Starch and saltine was positive for starch. Vegetable oil and egg was positive for lipids. Egg and hamburger was positive for protein but I left out

The Effect of Boiling on the Rate of Aerobic Respiration of Germinating Peas Abstract Aerobic respiration is an enzyme mediated process during which glucose is used to make ATP to fuel the cells energy needs. Germination is one of such processes that make use of aerobic respiration and because certain factors can affect aerobic respiration, it would also affect germination. In this experiment, we examined the effects of boiling on the rate of aerobic respiration of germinating peas. Unboiled

amount of ATP from glucose (Urry, Cain, Wasserman, Minorsky, & Reece) by adding yeast to 3 different carbohydrate solutions used as a food sources. We used 4 different test tubes containing glucose, sucrose, saturated starch and water. The purpose was to see which carbohydrate would ferment the most in various temperatures.The levels of CO2 were tracked over a period of time. According to our predictions we believed from slowest to fastest at 4 degrees water, saturated starch, glucose and lastly sucrose

amount of carbon dioxide produced, decreased as the concentration of the glucose solution changed from 10% to 30%. This is because if the glucose level increases over the optimum amount for catalase, the osmotic concentration is too high for the yeast to absorb water. A large portion of yeast (the catalyst) is made up of water; therefore, it is needed to undertake fermentation effectively. Due to the water potential of glucose decreasing below the water potential of yeast cells, yeast is losing water

(polysaccharides), and simple carbohydrates (monosaccharides and some disaccharides). A number of 12 samples are tested, including one unknown sample. Positive controls that were used for all the sections are protein solution, 1% starch solution, and 1% glucose solution, respectively. Distilled water is used as a negative control for all sections. The first section of the experiment is known as the biuret test, which detects the presence of proteins; or more

Biochemistry Task 4 00046260 A.  1.  Two features that make all enzymes catalysts are that they increases the rate in chemical reaction without being used or modified and the thermodynamic properties of the reaction do not change (Hudon-Miller, 2012). 2.  (Gresham HS IB Biology, 2007) 3. (Shmoop Editorial Team, 2008) 4. The first two steps of fructose metabolism in the liver is fructose is broken down by fructokinase into fructose -1-phosphate

monosaccharides joined together by a covalent bond. Common examples of disaccharides are sucrose or table sugar (glucose-fructose), maltose (glucose- glucose) and lactose (glucose-galactose); sugar in milk. The main

The average respiration rate of glucose was the highest, followed by sucrose, water, lactose, and glycerol (Figure 1). Water does not have any carbon source for the yeast to feed on, but it produced the third highest amount of carbon dioxide (Table 1). The standard deviation revealed that glucose had an extremely high standard deviation, indicating that the results were more varied, while water, lactose, and glycerol all had a significantly lower standard variation (Table 1, Figure 1). Conclusions: