Mackenzie Rodriguez - Macromolecule Lab

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Macromolecule Lab Writeup

Mackenzie Rodriguez
Food 1: Clovers® Cream Cheese
Food 2: Costco® Dino Buddies Nuggets
Hypothesis:
If we test cream cheese for macromolecules then lipids and proteins will appear.
If we test chicken nuggets for macromolecules lipids and proteins will appear.
Procedure:
- Monosaccharide: - Starch:
- 2mL food - 2mL food
- 2mL benedict’s - 0.1 iodine
- Protein: - Lipid:
- 2mL food - place one drop of food onto paper towel
- 0.75 biuret
Food Indicator Result Positive or Negative?
Benedict's Opaque Orange/Tan Positive
Iodine Olive green Negative

Cream Cheese
Biuret Light Purple Positive
Paper Towel Test Transparent Positive
Benedict's Blue/Green Negative
Iodine Black Positive
Chicken Nuggets Biuret Purple Positive
Paper Towel Test Transparent Positive

Biology
Macromolecule Lab Writeup
Mackenzie Rodriguez
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Claim: If we test cream cheese for macromolecules then lipids and proteins will appear.
Lead-in: By using different chemicals we can see chain reactions caused by the macromolecules in our food and see how they are
affected by them.
Evidence: While experimenting we found out that cream cheese is positively affected by Benedicts, Biuret and the “paper towel
test” but is negatively affected by Iodine. We know this because we tested cream cheese with four different tests, which are as
follows; Monosaccharides, Proteins, Lipids, and Carbohydrates! For each we had detailed procedures that were precisely followed
to have excellent results. Let’s start off with the monosaccharides test, for this test we used 2mL (Millileters) of our cream cheese
mixture (watered down cream cheese) and 2mL of Benedicts. Once testing we found our mixture turned into an opaque orange/tan,
this was because benedicts positively affected the cream cheese. (The cream cheese had monosaccharides). Then, we moved onto
our protein test which consisted of 2mL of cream cheese and 0.75mL of biuret. With this our finding was that our mixture turned a
light purple color meaning that cream cheese is positively affected by biuret, which means cream cheese is filled with protein! We
also took a starch test, which consisted of 2mL of cream cheese and 0.1mL of iodine. Once mixed we saw our mixture turn into an
olive green color which meant cream cheese was negatively affected by iodine, which then meant cream cheese had no starch.
Finally we moved to our last test, “the paper towel test”, simplest of all, we took a drop of our cream cheese mixture and placed it
on a paper towel. Around 10 minutes later we conferred cream cheese tested positive for lipids, which meant cream cheese was full
of lipids!
Analysis: We then confirmed our hypothesis of, if we test cream cheese for lipids and proteins! We also concluded that cream
cheese also contains monosaccharides!
Repeat:
Lead-in: If we test chicken nuggets for macromolecules, carbohydrates and proteins will appear and by using different
chemicals we can observe different chain reactions caused by the macromolecules in our food and see how they are affected by
them, except this time we tested chicken nuggets!
Evidence: While experimenting we found out that chicken nuggets were positively affected by iodine,biuret and the paper
towel test and negatively affected by benedicts. We started off our experiment with the monosaccharides test, which consisted of
2mL of our chicken nugget mixture (watered down blended chicken nuggets) and 2mL of benedict’s, our results were negative,
meaning chicken nuggets do not contain monosaccharides. With that we moved on to our starch test in which we used 2mL of
chicken nuggets and 0.1mL of iodine, our results were positive meaning chicken nuggets contain starch. We then tested our food for
protein. We used 2mL of chicken nuggets and 0.75mL of biuret mixed together and our results were once again positive, chicken
nuggets have protein!! Lastly we tested for lipids using our paper towel test where we placed one drop of our chicken nugget
mixture on a paper towel, waited 10 minutes to conclude that chicken nuggets tested positive for lipids.
Analysis: We concluded that if we tested chicken nuggets for macromolecules, lipids and proteins will result apparent , this
was then proven by the various tests we did!

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Food Indicator Result Positive or Negative?

Benedict's Opaque Orange/Tan Positive

Iodine Olive green Negative

Paper Towel Test Transparent Positive

Benedict's Blue/Green Negative

Iodine Black Positive

Chicken Nuggets Biuret Purple Positive

Paper Towel Test Transparent Positive

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