Rodolfo Elenes, Kyle Denton, Gurpreet Dhami

BIOL 1020

Pg.46, #4 Graph

This graph depicts the volume of oxygen per gram in the plants that we had studied and different

groups all had the same plant. We had a procedure that involved the spinach leaves to under

photosynthesis by hypothesizing that if the plants need more carbon dioxide to perform

photosynthesis, then sodium bicarbonate will help the spinach form oxygen bubbles. There were

two weights of sodium bicarbonates that were added, 17.5g and 35g. The independent variable

was the carbon dioxide and the dependent variable was the amount of oxygen produced in

milliliters. Reactants that were involved were carbon dioxide and water and the products were

oxygen, water and glucose. Group 4 had a significant amount of oxygen that was produced than

any other group from the 35g of sodium bicarbonate. From the 17.5g of sodium bicarbonate,

group 1 had the most oxygen.

Pg.47, #1 Graph

This graph shows us the relationship between the pH levels of the water and the balloon

circumference. Our group was assigned to work with different basic pH levels of water. The pH

levels were supposed to have an effect on the yeast and sucrose production of carbon dioxide,

that filled the balloon up.We can not draw a clear relationship between the pH levels as we can

see that the carbon dioxide production dropped when pH levels increased to 9, but it went back

to nearly the same level of carbon dioxide production when the pH level increased to 11. There is

a chance that human error could have had an effect on this experiment, because we found out late

that we were supposed to measure the pH levels of the water before sucrose and yeast were

mixed with the water. Our pH levels may have been inaccurate. We can see from our graph that

pH levels can have an effect on carbon dioxide production.