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Yeast And Anaerobic Metabolism

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Enzymes are important molecules in every living cell in the universe. An enzyme is a biological catalyst that speeds up the rate of a chemical reaction without undergoing any chemical changes itself. This means that the enzyme will be the same molecular formula before and after the reaction has taken place. Yeast are a single celled type of fungus. Yeast cells digest different types of sugar to make carbon dioxide gas and ethyl alcohol. Yeast is commonly used for baking and making alcohol to drink. Yeast is used in baking because when the yeast cells react with the sugar in the batter, the batter will rise due the trapped carbon dioxide molecules. Yeast is mixed in with different ingredients to make a variety of different types of alcohol …show more content…

The lab manual has all the information on this subject so I citied it in the lit cited section of the lab write up at the end of the write up. In this lab we tried to find what fuels yeast could metabolize and what the yields of the carbon dioxide gas that were produced from the different sugars used. We used 6 different yeast and sugar mixtures. The different yeast and sugar mixtures we used were control, glucose, sucrose, fructose, starch, and saccharin. The results for the 6 different results are presented in Tables 1-6 and Graph 1. Graph 1 is a graph of all the information in Tables 1-6. Each Table and graph is labeled approximately. The experiment answered the question; How do yeast metabolize different fuels? My hypothesis was that yeast could metabolize some fuels and not others, but all the fuels would be metabolized at a different rate. My prediction was that yeast could metabolize all the fuels we used, but it would metabolize at different rates. Yeast metabolizes different fuels by fermentation without the presence of oxygen; this is the method we used in the lab. The control group produces carbon dioxide because there are still different sugars in the water. These sugars are there because we used normal tap water, which contains many different molecules and ions inside the solution. It is important to have the control group to compare to the other fuels because we can see how much the other fuels have created compared to the normal water from the

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