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The Effect Of Sugars Affect The Rate Of Respiration In Yeast Respiration

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The purpose of this lab was to test if yeast could or could not metabolize different types of sugars. The lab can also display how the different types of sugars affect the rate of respiration in yeast. The yeast was tested with each individual sugar to determine the rate of respiration. The smallest sugar had the highest rate of respiration and the largest sugar had the lowest rate of respiration.

The original hypothesis was, if the type of sugar used in this experiment is glucose, then the rate of respiration in yeast will be at its highest. Because glucose is a sugar that can be metabolized easiest and is also the smallest carbohydrate. The hypothesis was supported because out of all the overall averages for rate of respiration in yeast, glucose had the highest respiration rate. Lactose had the smallest rate of respiration, then starch, sucrose, and finally glucose. Some outliers that could have partly affected the results was, a severely low, negative number (-1.3229) in lactose. Another outlier was, when glucose was being tested there was an unusually high number (1859.8). According to the graph the glucose in the group data was a major outlier. As it was way higher that any of the other bars and sugars. The fact that starch did not have the lowest respiration rate, but the second to lowest by 109.571 was surprising. Because one reason the hypothesis stated glucose would have the highest rate of respiration was because it was the smallest carbohydrate. Starch is the

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