Pre-lab questions

Answer:
1. - The ingredients needed for cellular respiration are yeast, sugar, and water.
2. -The products that are created by cellular respiration are oxygen which is
responsible in the released of stored energy and ATP which likely the reason why
this reaction generates energy.
3. - Both plant and animal cells need to do cellular respiration because it
provides organisms with the energy to do cellular work that helps them grow,
function, and live. It also provides oxygen that plants and animals needed to
function.
4. - The roles of yeast and sugar in this lab activity is that the yeast converts
sugar to a carbon dioxide same as the gas released/in by our body and this type of
sugar which is called sucrose gets broken down by the yeast, releasing the glucose
molecules that cells need for cellular respiration. The sugar is the food source
that yeast needs to survive.
Also, in the process, yeast uses the sugar and warm water to grow. Warm water
provides heat to the yeast reaction and accelerates it. As yeast grows it expands
and gets bubbly. By being “bubbly” the yeast gives off carbon dioxide, the same gas
that your body produces when you breathe, and the gas inflates the balloon. The
yeast also produces ethanol.
5. - Warm water is important in this experiment because temperature can alter the
amount of oxygen needed for respiration and the amount of energy used. Also, as in
this experiment, the warm water acts as a catalyst which is something that helps
speed up chemical reactions. The warm water environment activates the yeast and
causes it to feed on the sugar more quickly.
Time
Qualitative description
(What do you see happening in the balloon and the bottle?)
Quantitative description
(Measure around the balloon in cm)
Quantitative description
(Measure the height of the foam layer on top of the liquid in cm)

5 min

Set A - the balloon inflates fast

Set B - the reaction is that it became bubbly but compare to Set A, it's slower
Set C - it inflates faster than Set B but slower that Set A
Set D - the flask moistens because of heat but the balloon doesn't inflates

Set A - 199 cm

Set B - 91 cm

Set C - 146 cm

Set D - 0 cm

10 min
Set A - it inflates faster than the three sets (B, C, and D) ; it's bubbly
Set B - it gets bubbly but it still inflates slower than both Set A and Set C
Set C - it inflates fast but the height of the balloon increases than of it's width
Set D - the balloon slowly gets suck into the flask
Set A - 279 cm

Set B - 137 cm
Set C - 177 cm

Set D - 0 cm

15 min
Set A - the balloon grows the largest among the sets and it's so bubbly
Set B - the inflation is slow
Set C - it continues to inflate thus increasing more in height than of width
Set D - the balloon got sucked in the flask and the bottle moistens due to
temperature of the boiled water
Set A - 330 cm

Set B - 176 cm

Set C - 271 cm

Set D - 0 cm

Post-lab questions
1. - When the yeast consumed sugar, the reaction created carbon dioxide and
ethanol.
2. - The types of evidence in the lab activity showed that cellular respiration
took place is the bubbles, the smell created by the reaction (ethanol) and the
inflation of the balloon.
3. - If the sample have remained overnight, the balloon in Set A must have been
exploded, the Set C and B must have been larger. The Set D, however, must have
been totally sucke by the flask.
4. - Then we would remain oblivious to how energy in our body reacts and made. We
wouldn't have alcohols or we no longer can ferment. Also, bread would have been
impossible.