Macromolecules of Life Testing for Sugar
Tionette
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Macromolecules of Life: Testing for Starch
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Lab Report Assistant
This document is not meant to be a substitute for a formal laboratory report. The Lab Report Assistant is simply a summary of the experiment’s questions, diagrams if needed, and data tables that should be addressed in a formal lab report. The intent is to facilitate students’ writing of lab reports by providing this information in an editable file which can be sent to an instructor.
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Data Table 1 |
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Potato |
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Onion |
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Questions
A. What is purpose of this exercise and for what substance are you testing?
B. Which vegetable has the higher content of the test substance?
C. How many oval bodies are there in potato cells as compared to onion cells?
Experiment
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D. What do you conclude that the oval bodies are made of?
E. What can you conclude from your observations?
F. If the color changes are not as you expected, what are possible explanations?
G. How might you use the IKI reagent test in a practical real-life situation?
H. What do you feel you have learned in doing this exercise?
