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Method 1:

Place yeast with a specific amount of glucose solution into a test tube.
Connect a gas syringe (with bung) to the top of the test tube
Time how long it takes for CO2 to fill the syringe up to a certain level.
Repeat experiment with either varying temperatures or glucose
concentrations
NB. One could also use the water bath method, wherein a measuring
cylinder is flipped upside down in a water bath, with a tube running from
the yeast and glucose, into the cylinder. You can then measure how much
water is displaced in a given amount of time.

Method 2:
Make up separate solutions of yeast and glucose
Place test tube with glucose in water bath to raise/lower to constant
temperature
Add tetrazolium chloride indicator, followed by the yeast solution
Time how long the indicator takes to turn pink (detects level of CO2)
Repeat experiments at varying temperatures.

Method 3:
Take a small test tube in one hand and fill with yeast and glucose solution.
Take a large test tube in the other hand and flip upside down
Using the first hand, push the small test tube up the large test until it hits
the bottom of the large test tube
Now flip the large test tube the right way round, and the yeast solution
should remain inside the small test tube.
Draw a line on the large test tube, along where the bubble is
After a certain period of time, draw a second line to where the bubble has
moved
Record the distance between the first and second line

Method 4:
Add glucose solution to yeast in a conical flask
Use a bung to attach a balloon to the top of the flask
In a given amount of time, record the diameter of the balloon and workout
its volume with 3pir3/4.
Repeat with varying concentrations of glucose

Method 5:
Add glucose solution to yeast in a test tube in a water bath
Place a bung with glass tube on into the top of the test tube
Place the end of the tube in a specific volume of limewater
Record how long it takes for the limewater to turn milky
Repeat at different temperatures of water.

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