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Yeast Bubbles - Experiments On Microscopes 4 Schools

This document provides instructions for an experiment observing yeast bubbles under a microscope. The materials needed are a bowl, warm water, active dry bread yeast, sugar, a balloon, bottle, toothpick, microscope slide, and plastic coverslips. The yeast, water and sugar are mixed in a bowl and transferred to a bottle. A balloon is placed on the bottle to observe the carbon dioxide bubbles produced by the yeast as it ferments the sugar. To view under a microscope, a drop of the mixture is placed on a slide and covered with a coverslip. Yeast are then visible under high magnification reproducing by budding and producing carbon dioxide bubbles from fermenting sugars.

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Yeast Bubbles - Experiments On Microscopes 4 Schools

This document provides instructions for an experiment observing yeast bubbles under a microscope. The materials needed are a bowl, warm water, active dry bread yeast, sugar, a balloon, bottle, toothpick, microscope slide, and plastic coverslips. The yeast, water and sugar are mixed in a bowl and transferred to a bottle. A balloon is placed on the bottle to observe the carbon dioxide bubbles produced by the yeast as it ferments the sugar. To view under a microscope, a drop of the mixture is placed on a slide and covered with a coverslip. Yeast are then visible under high magnification reproducing by budding and producing carbon dioxide bubbles from fermenting sugars.

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Watching bread yeast make bubbles


Materials
Bowl FACT:
Warm water Marmite is in fact yeast
Active dry bread yeast extract, which is made by
Sugar adding salt to a yeast
Balloon suspension, but the process of
Bottle manufacture is secret.
Tooth Pick
Glass microscope slide
Plastic cover slips
See information on suppliers here (suppliers.php).

Methods
1. Put a pack of yeast in a bowl.
2. Add warm water and 2 tablespoons sugar and mix with a spoon.
3. Transfer the mixture into a bottle.
4. Place a balloon around the bottle neck and wait approx. 10min, during which time the balloon should inflate due to the released
carbon dioxide gas.

To observe the yeast under the microscope:


FACT:
1. Place a drop of the yeast mixture on the microscope slide (it might be necessary to dilute it a bit Wine is made by fermentation
more with water). of the sugars in the grapes by
2. Place a coverslip on top and observe under different magnifications. High magnifications will be yeasts that live on them.
needed to see the yeast well.

Yeasts are microscopic unicellular fungi that are used to make bread, beer and wine by
fermentation. Yeasts reproduce by budding (asexual reproduction), when a small bud forms
and splits to form a new daughter cell, but under stress conditions they can produce spores
(a form of sexual reproduction). The bread yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae uses the sugars in
the flour to produce energy, releasing the alcohol ethanol (which evaporates) and bubbles of
the gas carbon dioxide, which makes the bread dough rise. The bread yeast is also used to
make some types of beer; in this case the yeast uses the sugars from cereals like barley, to
produce ethanol and carbon dioxide. The bread yeast has been widely used by scientists to
study important cellular processes.

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