Practice Internal Assessment Report Christine Zhu St Pauls Grammar School 00296648 Biology HL Trial 1 & 2: 8/4/13 Trial 3 & 4: 10/4/13 Photo credits: Smarties by Andrew Dean, copyright Rebecca Douglas, retrieved 9/4/13 http://rebeccadouglas.photoshelter.com/image/I0000WDNZi_s2W4A Smarties Diffusion Experiment RESEARCH QUESTION How does changing the colour of smarties affect the extent of its passive diffusion? INTRODUCTION Passive diffusion, also known as simple diffusion, is used to
“The method a writer takes to bring a character to life” is defined as characterization. "Miss Brill" by Katherine Mansfield displays the character of Miss Brill as the protagonist, confronted with the reality of her existence. In the short story "Miss Brill," by Katherine Mansfield, an elderly woman spends a Sunday afternoon visiting a seaside park as part of her weekly ritual. As a developing character, Miss Brill is forced to face a harsh reality from her routine events. In the short story, "Miss
Activity 1: 1. Did any solutes move through the 20 MWCO membrane? Why or Why not? 2. Did Na+Cl- move through the 50 MWCO membrane? Activity 2: 1. Are the solutes moving with or against their concentration gradient in facilitated diffusion? 2. What happened to the rate of facilitated diffusion when the number of carrier proteins was increased? 3. In the simulation you added Na+Cl- to test its effect on glucose diffusion. Explain why there was no effect. Activity 3: 1. Which membrane resulted
B1.1 Introduction In a sample having non-uniform composition of certain kind of atoms, a concentration gradient is set in, which leads to migration of atoms from region of their higher concentration to the region of lower concentration. This phenomenon is referred to as Diffusion and continues till atomic distribution becomes homogeneous throughout. The diffusion process plays an important role in the field of metallurgy and fabrication of extrinsic semiconductors. The technology of controlled diffusion
Solar modulation of galactic cosmic rays (GCR) has been a subject of intense research, especially to assess the continuously changing behaviour of the sun and its influence on cosmic rays. This modulation of GCR intensity associated with ~11-year solar activity cycle has been studied from past several decades (e.g., Forbush, 1954; Burlaga et al., 1985; Venkatesan and Badruddin, 1990; Storini et al., 1995; Sabbah and Rybansky, 2006; Kudela, 2009; Ahluwalia et al., 2010; Heber, 2013; Chowdhury, Kudela
Chapter 1 : Introduction Drying is a simultaneous mass and heat transfer process that converts a liquid, solid or semi-solid feedstock into a solid product having lower moisture content. This is usually done by applying heat to evaporate the liquid into a vapor phase. Sometimes drying takes place below the triple point of the liquid to be removed and the solid phase is directly converted to vapor phase via sublimation as in case of freeze drying. [1] As drying must involve a phase change of the liquid
Abstract: Diffusion occurs as passive transport in cells through a selectively permeable membrane. In this experiment, the membrane that was used was dialysis tubing. The questions this experiment modeled were, which solutions would diffuse and what molecules were small enough to diffuse through the selected membranes. When the experiment concluded, the data supported which solutions diffused and at what rate they diffused. It is discussed that the permeability of a solute across a membrane is affected
The hypothesis states that if the solution is hypotonic the results will decrease, if the solution is hypertonic the results will increase and if the solution is isotonic the solution will vary and or remain constant. In order to test the predictions of the hypotonic, hypertonic, and isotonic hypothesis for the solution made during the study, four samples of sucrose were taken and placed into two different beakers each containing a different concentration. Then dialysis tubing A was placed into
Method Design The experiment will utilize a 2x2 factorial design with 2 (presentation style: blocked or interleaved) x 2 (informational content: high or low). Presentation style will be manipulated between subjects and informational content will be manipulated within subjects. Participants Participants will include forty undergraduate students, ranging in age from eighteen to twenty-three years. These subjects will be drawn from the Villanova University subject pool, and will receive course credit
Every haunted house usually has a sad or treacherous past. Lemp Mansion is no exception. Declared as one of the nine most haunted places in America, the Lemp Mansion in St. Louis has its own history of suicides and untimely deaths. The members of the family had wealth and power yet it seemed almost like a curse was on the family, causing misery and grief over the years. In 1838, Johann Adam Lemp settled down in St. Louis and opened a grocery store where he sold home-brewed beer based on his family