Yeast Population

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Yeast population growth

Introduction:

The objective is to find, what are the factors that affect population’s growth. For this
experiment we will use yeast to see how these living organisms grow. To see how
the yeast grow we will put the yeast on two different test tubes, one will be at 60º
and the other at room temperature and we will add a sugar solution to each one of
them.

Hypothesis:

Population will increase faster at the test tube of 60º, as the temperature is higher
the sugar will be consume faster so the results will be faster with a bigger
population.

Materials:

-Beakers
-Sugar
-Yeast
-2 Measuring cylinders
-Water at 60ºC
-Water at room temperature
-Chronometer

Procedure (method):

1. Put 20 ml of room temperature water into a beaker.


2. Add sugar to it.
3. Dissolve the sugar with the spoon.
4. Put the solution into the measuring cylinder.
5. Add the yeast to it.
6. Time with the chronometer every 2 minutes and take notes of the volume
produced of the foam.
7. Repeat the procedure with the 60º water but you will need to stop at 100 ml
Observations:

The volume was measured every two minutes to see how fast the population was
growing in each test tube, in the test tube of 60ºc the populations volume increased
quicker than the tube at room temperature, at 11 minutes the test tube of 60ºc
reached 100ml, at the same time the room temperature test tube reached the
36ml, looking at these results we can say that the populations increase faster when
they are warm.

Graph:

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The experiment formula is:

Yeast + Water + Glucose Ethanol + Carbon


Dioxide

Yeast + H2O + C6H12O6 C2H5OH + CO2

Conclusion:
In conclusion my hypothesis was correct, the population increases faster at a
greater temperature, so I understand that the population growth will stop if the
sugar or glucose consumed fully. In the experiment, we can have some mistakes,
for example, maybe we made mistakes taking the time, or maybe we didn’t put the
same amount of sugar into each tube because some of it could stay on the
recipient. The objective of this experiment was find out what causes the increase of
population, for demonstrate this we use the yeast as the living organism, the sugar
as the food, we can conclude that a population need food to grow as the sugar
made that the yeast grow in population, we know that because the foam, these is
crate by a gas from the yeast respiration and more carbon dioxide will be crated if
the temperature is hotter. My hypothesis was correct, if we increase the
temperature the population will growth faster so for more population we need more
food and a hot climate.

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