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Potato Sucrose Lab Report
We have learned that there is sugar in potato but this sugar is a glucose polymer, starch. Although there is starch in potatoes, there is not sucrose. Sucrose is a bigger molecule than glucose which means that glucose can pass easily through membranes compared to sucrose. The Yukon Gold potato has three grams of sugars in it. The sucrose solution has a less percent of water than the potato does. So because of osmosis the water in the potato will leave to become equilibrium with the sucrose concentration. If the concentration of sucrose is low in the solution, then the potato’s mass will change less because it has more water than sucrose. When the sucrose concentration is higher, the mass will change more because there will be a lot more water
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