Monday, 18 February 2013

Biological Molecules and Food Lab


Lab Questions:

1. 
Positive results were shown in various ways during the 3 tests we conducted on Friday. For the test for lipids (fats), a positive result is shown as a grease stain on paper. With that test, the butter and cupcake showed to be positive. For the starch test, a positive result is shown as blackening of whatever you are testing. Positive foods were, bread, and the cupcake. For the simple sugar (glucose) test, positive results for glucose turned orange.




The building block of starch is glucose.

2.
The building blocks starch molecules are made up of are: glucose molecules. 

3. 
I think that Thomas and Josh achieved these results because carbohydrate molecules are pretty big and take more time to break apart. Since they left the substance in the water for longer, the carbohydrates were given more time to break apart. 

4. 
The death of an apple: Starting with the mouth, there is physical digestion. Your teeth break down your food while salivary amylase breaks it down. Your food is chewed and called a bolus. Using peristalsis, the food in moved through your esophagus, and into your stomach, passing through the cardiac sphincter. In your stomach you have HCl and pepsin, which turns into a substance called "chyme." The pancreas, liver, and gall bladder are accessory organs. The pancreas creates pancreatic juice with contains pancreatic amylase, lipase, trypsin, and sodium bicarbonate. Pancreatic amylase breaks down starch; trypsin breaks protein into peptides; lipase breaks down lipids into glycerol and fatty acids. The liver creates bile, and it is then stored in the gall bladder. Chyme enters the small intestine through the pyloric sphincter. The first 25 cm of the small intestine is called the duodenum, which creates small intestine juice. Bile is also released into the duodenum. The rest of the small intestine absorbs nutrients such as: glucose, amino acids, and fatty acids. Chyme continues through small intestine, and then reached large intestine. The large intestine absorbs H2O and contains bacteria E. Coli. Once through the large intestine, the Chyme turns into feces. Feces collect and stores in the rectum, and eventually releases into the world to be flushed down the toilet.
 

Monday, 4 February 2013

Sunday, 3 February 2013

Who What When Where Why...and sometimes How???

To be honest I took Bio 12 because I needed an academic...whoops. But Bio is probably the most interesting science (and the one that makes the most sense to me) so yay! And Mrs. Phillips rocks so who wouldn't want to take Bio 12 with her? Double yay! I'm probably the most excited to learn about our SYSTEMS! (nervous systems, reproductive systems...all that good stuff) Because they seem interesting...and i've been using them for 17 years and barely have a clue how they work...seriously though. My #1 question for this year: Where did people get that idea that hearts were shaped like that???