M5 Biology: Lab Quiz 1 REVIEW SHEET

Answer all questions in COMPLETE SENTENCES!

Name: ______________
Class: ____ Date: _____

Cellular Respiration Lab:

1) What was the independent variable? What was the dependent variable?
2) How did you know that carbon dioxide was produced? Was more carbon dioxide produced
before or after exercise? Why?

3) What are some errors that could have affected the results?

4) Can we reasonably conclude from this experiment that exercise affects cellular respiration
in boys and girls differently? Why or why not?

5) If you only exercised for 15 seconds, how would the results change?

Fermentation Lab:
6) What organism did we use?
7) How did you know that fermentation was occurring? What type of fermentation was this?
8) Which flasks were the controls? Why?

9) If we put the flasks in a sunny place, how would the results change?

10) Why did we boil one of the solutions? What results did you expect in this flask?

11) Was there a difference in the amount of carbon dioxide produced in the flask with sucrose
and the flask with starch? Why?

12) How would you measure the amount of carbon dioxide produced?