Enzyme Lab: 1 And Add Lugol's Solution
Enzyme Lab
Daniyal Abdali
(Rachel Lee)
(Sarina Dolch)
SBI 3UI
Mr. Vrabec
October 20, 2009
Test #1 * Add a small piece of cracker in test tube #1 and add Lugol’s solution.
Observation #1 * The cracker turned a black colour when the Lugol’s solution was added to it. This was a positive result, meaning that the cracker contains starch.
Test #2 * Add a bigger piece of cracker in test tube #2, add 5 mL of Benedict’s solution, place in a boiling water bath, and record observations after 5 minutes.
Observation #2 * There was no change in colour after the Benedict’s solution was added to the cracker. This was a negative result, meaning that the cracker is not a mono- or di- saccahride.
Test #3 * Chew a cracker …show more content…
Observation #4 * When the solution was added to the hot water bath, the solution went from blue, to green, to yellow, and finally to orange as time progressed. This was a positive result, meaning that the amylase in our saliva broke the polysaccharides in the cracker into mono- and di- saccharides. As a result, the Benedict’s reagent changed colour because it indicated the presence of mono- and di- saccharides in the solution.
Observation #5
There weren’t any differences in the results of step 4 when compared with the results of step 2. This is because all the Lugol’s solution is doing is indicating if starches are present. Starches are present no matter if the cracker is solid or chewed up.
However, there were differences in the results of step 5/6 and step 3. In step 3, when Benedict’s reagent was added to the cracker there was no colour change. This indicated that there were no mono- or di- saccharides in the cracker. However, once the cracker was chewed in step 5, the amylase in the person’s saliva broke the polysaccharides into smaller groups (mono/di saccharides). Since the Benedict’s reagent indicates the presence of mono- and di- saccharides, there were prominent changes in the colour of the
Daniyal Abdali
(Rachel Lee)
(Sarina Dolch)
SBI 3UI
Mr. Vrabec
October 20, 2009
Test #1 * Add a small piece of cracker in test tube #1 and add Lugol’s solution.
Observation #1 * The cracker turned a black colour when the Lugol’s solution was added to it. This was a positive result, meaning that the cracker contains starch.
Test #2 * Add a bigger piece of cracker in test tube #2, add 5 mL of Benedict’s solution, place in a boiling water bath, and record observations after 5 minutes.
Observation #2 * There was no change in colour after the Benedict’s solution was added to the cracker. This was a negative result, meaning that the cracker is not a mono- or di- saccahride.
Test #3 * Chew a cracker …show more content…
Observation #4 * When the solution was added to the hot water bath, the solution went from blue, to green, to yellow, and finally to orange as time progressed. This was a positive result, meaning that the amylase in our saliva broke the polysaccharides in the cracker into mono- and di- saccharides. As a result, the Benedict’s reagent changed colour because it indicated the presence of mono- and di- saccharides in the solution.
Observation #5
There weren’t any differences in the results of step 4 when compared with the results of step 2. This is because all the Lugol’s solution is doing is indicating if starches are present. Starches are present no matter if the cracker is solid or chewed up.
However, there were differences in the results of step 5/6 and step 3. In step 3, when Benedict’s reagent was added to the cracker there was no colour change. This indicated that there were no mono- or di- saccharides in the cracker. However, once the cracker was chewed in step 5, the amylase in the person’s saliva broke the polysaccharides into smaller groups (mono/di saccharides). Since the Benedict’s reagent indicates the presence of mono- and di- saccharides, there were prominent changes in the colour of the