Biology/suggestion for biology project

Question can you please suggest me some new good topics for the project on biology which includes some models,short research work etc? i am studying in class 12. i have some good topics but feel that they are quite worn out so i am in search of some new exciting topics that suits class 12th level.please reply,if u can help me,as soon as possible Thanks in anticipation Answer This is a research project which I designed for someone on this site in Oct. Perhaps you can look it over and make some changes as you see fit. This project is about determining the amount of yeast that would grow in a water saturated environment, some environment that was in between, and an arid environment. You could change some variables so that this project becomes your own like: 1. change the number of tests, increase the number of samples to get a better data trend in your graph 2. Measure other variables--> measure the amount of alcohol present in your samples by using a pH meter (electronic or litmus papers) with respect to the amount of bread added/ or use sugar- to determine how long the yeast metabolise the food source--pH could vary from lots of metabolism perhaps pH=5 to little metabolism pH= close to 7 (limiting your samples exposure to oxygen is good here) 3. Change the amount of sugar/ food for the yeast then get weight% of the yeast in each of your test samples([wt yeast/ weight sugar + yeast] X 100% )-to find the most favrable conditions for the suvival/growth of your yeast- and graph your results/ standard deviation. In this last one you will need a centrifuge to separate the mixture of sugarwater and yeast. Compose your finished experiment on poster board---go to Kinko's copies, or other prining store to obtain a good quality poster of the experiment that you did- this is your model/ include pictures of your experiment.I hope this helps you!!... please feel free to ask more questions also don't hesitate to ask other experts on this site/ most are teachers who regularly give students experiments to do. Good luck!! Intro: Water breaks down the starch (glucose molecules)in the bread if you are useing bread. The more water is added more of the bread will be broken down, and be usable as and energy source for the yeast which "eats" the starch. 1) ****Please see #5) before you read #1)!! you should have only one dependant variable(weight of the slice of bread after the mold/ yeast is allowed to grow on it in the variable moisture environment) - this is your test. The yeast and moisture are independant variables that you control. You should have atleast five tests- five bowls with lids to keep in the moisture. The water added to these bowls will vary in increasing increments respective of the bowl/test- the water must be measured and weighed. You will need to weigh the slices of bread, water and yeast before you add the yeast and water to the bread. The amount of yeast added must be the

same for all bowls. After the yeast grows the bread must be dried and weighed. 2)Add as much or as little as you want (with in reason/ confines of your research or what you want to study or learn from your research). However, the amount you add if you are useing a few tests should be the same. 3) add the yeast to the water. 4) Have a bowl or plate place the bread onto the plate. Measure your water (ex: grams, 1cup), add your yeast, and then pour the mixture onto the bread. Cover the bowl (better to use a bowl)with a glass plate if you have one or plastic rap- yeast don't need oxygen to survive. 5) MATERIALS AND METHODS 1. five bowls (plastic bowls) maybe 2.50$ 2. five glass plates/ or plastic wrap 3. a liquid measureing cup 4. ***a double beam balance (or some type of weight (grams)measureing device perhaps ask your teacher) or a digital balance would be so much better. 5. Five slices of white bread 6. weigh the yeast it doesn't matter how much you use just as long as you use the same amount of yeast on each slice of bread. 7. Obtain bakers yeast from the grocery store about 5.00$. 8. Masking tape and a marker to label the bowls- the bowls should all be the same size. 9. Weighing paper or beaker HOW TO USE BALANCE: * The three adjacent bars that are between to hanging plates are in grams. The first bar closest to you is in increments of 1/10 of a gram, the next bar is in increments of 10 grams, the third bar is in increments of 100 grams. There are little metal peices attached to each of the three bars- the metal peices move. Move each of the metal peices to the very left end of each of the three bars if they are not there already. Observe a needle in the middle of the balance above the three barswhen all three metal peices are to the left this needle should be pointing to the zero this is good. To weight the bread just place it onto one of the plates. The plate will move down with the weight of the bread. First move the little metal peice on the first bar until the needle in the middle points to zero- if it doesn't go to zero leave the first metal peice where it is and move the next metal peice on the second bar and then the next on the third if the needle still doesn't go to zero. When the needle is on zero this is how to "read" the weight of the slice: Ex: if the 1st metal peice on the 1st bar is pointing to the fifth line within the number 2 (just like on a ruler) and the second metal peice on the second bar is pointing to the second line in the #3 the weight of the slice of bread is 32.25grams. To weigh the yeast obtain a beaker/ or weighing paper and place it onto one of the plates. Record the weight of the weighing paper. Now move all the metal peices back to the left, the plate with the weighing paper or beaker will be lower than the plate without it. Put an amount of yeast into the beaker and weigh again and record this weight Subtract the

weight of the beaker from the weight of the yeast and the beaker to obtain the true weight of the yeast. Now weigh the liquid measure container and record the value. Pour in it (after you weighted the container wothout water) a specified amount of water (you will see what I mean later). Pour the yeast into the liquid measure container that has in it already, water and weigh this solution. Subtract the weight of the container by itself from the container filled with the mixture to obtain the weight of the solution/ mixture. Remember, that that the first sample of yeast is not mixed with water you just put it directly onto the bread. So for ex: for bowl #2- (the weights of the empty beaker and empty liquid measure container are already recorded) put the yeast into the beaker until it weighs the same as the yeast plus the beaker in your first trial (don't record this because it will be the same for all five bowls). Take the beaker with yeast in it off the balance. Obtain a liquid measure container and add 1/2 cup of water. Now add the yeast in the beaker to the liquid measure container. Weigh the the liquid measure container that is now holding water and yeast- record the weigh for the second trial and trials 3,4, and 5. METHODS BREAD and BOWL set up. 1. Obtain five plastic bowls. 2. Obtain five slices of white bread. Obtain a peice of notebook paper number it 1-5. Weigh the each of the five slices on the double beam balance and record/ write down the weight next to a number on the sheet of paper the weights of each. 3. Obtain your masking tape, tear off 5 peices about 3" to 4" in length. Now write with your marker to label each of the masking tape peices #'s 1-5. In addition write "CONTROL" on the #1 masking tape, and "TEST" on the rest (#2-#5) of the masking tape peices. 4. Stick the 5 peices of masking tape onto each of the five bowls. 5. Now place each of the 5 bread slices that you weighed into each of the 5 bowls according to the number that you recorded during weighing for each. Ex: bread slice 1 2.50 grams is placed into bowl #1.. and so on until slice 5 is placed into Bowl 5. Yeast and water set-up: * Bowl#1 (conrol) don't put any water in it. 6. Weight out five amounts of yeast- all will be the same weight. Record the weight of the yeast. 7. For the conrol bowl just add the yeast sample without water to the bread and then cover the bowl with plastic wrap. 8. For the next 4 bowls: Add yeast to 1/2 cup of water and pour evenly onto the bread in bowl #2. Bowl#3: add 1 cup water plus the yeast to the bread in bowl #3. Bowl#4: add 1 1/2 cups water and the yeast to bowl #4. Bowl#5: add 2cups of water and the yeast to bowl #5. Cover all the bowls with plastic wrap. 9. Let the yeast grow for 1 week.

10. after one week has passed take the bread out of the bowls and let dry for maybe 2 days in your kitchen- ware gloves when taking the bread out of the bowls other organisms like bacteria may be growing on the bread as well. 11. after the bread has dried weigh each of the slices. RESULTS: 12. to obtain the concentration of your yeast mixture divide the weight of the yeast (obtained the previous week before adding mixture to the bread) by the weight of the yeast plus the water and then multiply by 100- this will give you the weight percent(w/w%)or concentration of the mixture. 13. Make a graph were on the x axis put the concentrations of the five mixtures starting with 0 for the control. On the y axis put the mass of the bread after drying. You can also subtract the weight of the bread before the experiment from the weight of the bread after the experiment is conpleted which equals the amount of yeast present. Compare this value to the initial amount of yeast added to the bread. This will tell you how much yeast has grown in each slice of bread compared to the water added. If you are going to show your results in a poster format you could write it in this way: ABSTRACT: Where the main results are written (ex: the more water added the more growth of yeast)- don't include numerical values- this is a short summary of what you did (methods) and the results you got. INTRODUCTION: Back ground- ex: what is yeast what does it eat- explain the interaction between yeast and bread... MATERIALS and METHODS: you could just copy what I wrote for this section. RESULTS: In this section you would include your calculations and the graph you made- no writing here just math. CONCLUSION: Here you discuse the math/ RESULTS of the experiment. CITATION/ BIBLIOGRAPHY: here you make reference to were you got information in the INTRODUCTION section also cite me. THE END!!!!!!!! :)