BISC 131 Lab Final Study Guide
Pollution - Answer -A contaminant to a natural environment that causes harm to the
organisms there
Ankistrodesmus - Answer -Algae that live in fresh water
2 weeks - Answer -Over what period of time did we monitor the growth of the
Ankistrodesmus algae?
A source of nutrients for the algae - Answer -What is the function of the Alga-Gro
reagent?
Spectrophotometer - Answer -What machine was used to measure the growth of the
Ankistrodesmus algae?
Heat them up (higher temperature, more heat) - Answer -What could you do to
molecules in a fluid in order to speed up their rate of diffusion?
Water - Answer -Osmosis involves the movement of:
Potato - Answer -When we observed the effects of osmosis on living cells, what
organism did the cells come from?
Sodium chloride - Answer -When we observed the effects of osmosis in cells in different
solutions, the solutions were composed of water and:
Their mass - Answer -What aspect of the living cells in the osmosis study were
measured after being immersed in their different solutions?
Active site - Answer -At what site on an enzyme does its substrate bind?
Catalase - Answer -What was the name of the enzyme that was studied in the enzyme
activity lab #3
Hydrogen peroxide - Answer -What was the substrate of the enzyme, Catalase?
, Water and oxygen - Answer -What were the products of the enzymatic reaction in Lab
#3?
Potato - Answer -Which organism did we extract the enzyme, Catalase?
Surrounding the organisms in a solution with colored dye - Answer -How did we expose
the organisms in the Photosynthesis Lab to only certain wavelengths of light
C6H12O6 - Answer -What was the product in the process of photosynthesis?
Elodea - Answer -What organism was used in the Photosynthesis lab experiment?
pH meter - Answer -What equipment was used to make measurements of enzyme
activity during the course of the Photosynthesis Lab?
Increase - Answer -If Photosynthesis is occurring in the water, the pH of the water will:
Diffusion - Answer -The process by which molecules dissolved in a fluid move until their
distribution in the fluid is uniform:
Heat - Answer -Movement of molecules in diffusion is powered by:
Solvent - Answer -A liquid in which things are dissolved:
Water - Answer -In living things, the solvent is almost always:
Solute - Answer -A molecule that is dissolved in a solvent:
Solution - Answer -A solvent with solutes dissolved in it:
Osmosis - Answer -The movement of water from a region of low solute concentration to
a region of high solute concentration, until the concentration of solutes in the solvent is
uniform:
Semi-permeable membrane - Answer -The cell membrane acts similar to a ________:
Catalysts - Answer -Substances that speed up chemical reactions:
Mass - Answer -Grams are a measurement of:
Graduated cylinder - Answer -Although we combined the water and salt together in a
beaker in Lab #1, what piece of labware did we use to accurately measure the amount
of water?
Tare - Answer -What button was pressed on the electric balance to tell the machine to
set its mass to zero? (After weigh boat was placed on the scale)
Pollution - Answer -A contaminant to a natural environment that causes harm to the
organisms there
Ankistrodesmus - Answer -Algae that live in fresh water
2 weeks - Answer -Over what period of time did we monitor the growth of the
Ankistrodesmus algae?
A source of nutrients for the algae - Answer -What is the function of the Alga-Gro
reagent?
Spectrophotometer - Answer -What machine was used to measure the growth of the
Ankistrodesmus algae?
Heat them up (higher temperature, more heat) - Answer -What could you do to
molecules in a fluid in order to speed up their rate of diffusion?
Water - Answer -Osmosis involves the movement of:
Potato - Answer -When we observed the effects of osmosis on living cells, what
organism did the cells come from?
Sodium chloride - Answer -When we observed the effects of osmosis in cells in different
solutions, the solutions were composed of water and:
Their mass - Answer -What aspect of the living cells in the osmosis study were
measured after being immersed in their different solutions?
Active site - Answer -At what site on an enzyme does its substrate bind?
Catalase - Answer -What was the name of the enzyme that was studied in the enzyme
activity lab #3
Hydrogen peroxide - Answer -What was the substrate of the enzyme, Catalase?
, Water and oxygen - Answer -What were the products of the enzymatic reaction in Lab
#3?
Potato - Answer -Which organism did we extract the enzyme, Catalase?
Surrounding the organisms in a solution with colored dye - Answer -How did we expose
the organisms in the Photosynthesis Lab to only certain wavelengths of light
C6H12O6 - Answer -What was the product in the process of photosynthesis?
Elodea - Answer -What organism was used in the Photosynthesis lab experiment?
pH meter - Answer -What equipment was used to make measurements of enzyme
activity during the course of the Photosynthesis Lab?
Increase - Answer -If Photosynthesis is occurring in the water, the pH of the water will:
Diffusion - Answer -The process by which molecules dissolved in a fluid move until their
distribution in the fluid is uniform:
Heat - Answer -Movement of molecules in diffusion is powered by:
Solvent - Answer -A liquid in which things are dissolved:
Water - Answer -In living things, the solvent is almost always:
Solute - Answer -A molecule that is dissolved in a solvent:
Solution - Answer -A solvent with solutes dissolved in it:
Osmosis - Answer -The movement of water from a region of low solute concentration to
a region of high solute concentration, until the concentration of solutes in the solvent is
uniform:
Semi-permeable membrane - Answer -The cell membrane acts similar to a ________:
Catalysts - Answer -Substances that speed up chemical reactions:
Mass - Answer -Grams are a measurement of:
Graduated cylinder - Answer -Although we combined the water and salt together in a
beaker in Lab #1, what piece of labware did we use to accurately measure the amount
of water?
Tare - Answer -What button was pressed on the electric balance to tell the machine to
set its mass to zero? (After weigh boat was placed on the scale)
