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Pre-Lab 5: Cell Respiration
Use pages 54 & 55 in your lab book in order to answer these questions.
1. List the three things that we will do in this laboratory investigation.
2. Give the equation for the complete oxidation of glucose.
3. Name three ways that cellular respiration could be measured.
4. How will respiration be measured in this lab.
5. What will happen to the carbon dioxide produced during this lab?
6. What is the purpose of using the vial with the glass beads alone?
7. Would you expect there to be more respiration in the vial with the germinating or
non-germinating peas? Explain your reasoning.
Access Lab Bench and lab: Cell Respiration
Complete Key Concepts.
1. Give the word equation for cellular respiration.
2. Which organisms carry on cellular respiration?
3. Describe how cellular respiration occurs in a muscle cell.
4. Name some processes in a plant that require ATP.
Complete the Design of the Experiment
5. What happens as the oxygen in the respirometer is used up?
6. What happens to the carbon dioxide that is produced?
7. How is the rate of respiration measured in the respirometers?
8. What is the reading on the pipette?
9. Why do we need to have a control in an experiment?
10. Why is it important that we find the corrected difference?
11. How do we find the corrected difference?
Complete the Analysis of the Results
12. Give the formula for determining the rate of respiration.
13. Calculate the rate of consumption of oxygen for the respirometers shown. Show your
work.
Complete the Lab Quiz
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