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Katelyn Dalton 10/1
Title: Measuring Catalyst Activity
Purpose: Measuring catalyst activities with different substrate
to see if the enzyme will still ‘fit’ in the active site.
Hypothesis: When the volume of hydrogen peroxide is champed the
reaction will either delay or happen quickly.
Procedure
- mixture of equal parts 10% yeast solution and 2% sodium alginate,
dropped in a cup with 50 Ml of 0.15M of CaC13 creating spheres of
yeast
- A yeast sphere is dropped into a solution with 0.12% of Hydrogen
peroxid
- Time from when the sphere hits the bottom to when it reaches the top
- Repeat 10 times
- A yeast sphere is dropped into a solution with 0.3% of Hydrogen
peroxid
- Time from when the sphere hits the bottom to when it reaches the top
- Repeat 10 time
- A yeast sphere is dropped into a solution with 0.6% of Hydrogen
peroxid
- Time from when the sphere hits the bottom to when it reaches the top
- Repeat 10 times
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Data Collection
0.12 0.3 0.6
1 20.34 6.7 4.0
2 19.04 6.88 2.73
3 17.73 6.81 3.75
4 17.62 6.65 2.98
5 18.58 6.42 4.04
6 18.64 5.86 3.99
7 17.11 6.54 3.76
8 20.43 7.24 3.56
9 18.24 6.19 2.78
10 18.33 6.82 4.28
AVG 18.6 6.1 3.59
Sources of Error
The main source of ever inferred is the size of he yeast spheres
made, without the spheres being the same size for each drop in the
solutions the most accurate average can’t be concurred. As well as
stopping the timer used on the phone there could be a couple
milliseconds that are counted on accident with how fast the timer is
stopped.
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Summary:
In correlation to the hypothesis with the reaction was different
depending on the volume of hydrogen peroxide in the test tubes the
data table shows a correspondence to it, when the higher the volume of
the hydrogen peroxide was added the In the solution the faster the
yeast spheres went top the top of the the test tube. In each solution
there an outlier, in 0.12% the outlier was 17.11 seconds. In 0.3% the
outlier was 7.27 seconds, and in 0.6% the outlier was 4.28 seconds.
Which could correspond to the sources of error with different masses
of Yeats spheres dropped in the solutions.
In conclusion the lab showed the reaction of enzymes in a
specific solutions and how with different variants of specific
mixtures can cause the reaction time to either delay and or react
quicker depending on the amount added