Cellular Respiration In Plants Experiment

This module is designed so that students can be assessed.

Cellular respiration in plants experiment. Cellular respiration refers to the process of converting the chemical energy of organic molecules into a form immediately usable by organisms. In this process of cellular respiration plants generate glucose molecules through photosynthesis by capturing energy from sunlight and converting it into glucose. Plants are doing cellular respiration in the day time as well but since photosynthesis is also occurring the indicator stayed blue.

Rubber stoppers Respiration bottle setups. It turns red when an acid is added to it and blue when a base is added to it. The AP Biology Lab 5 uses respirometry techniques to calculate the rate of oxygen consumption cellular respiration in germinating pea seeds.

Your task in this lab is to determine whether or not various sets of bean seeds are going through cellular respiration. For example students may investigate photosynthesis and cellular respiration in aquatic plants but may want to do another investigation to learn about photosynthesis and cellular respiration in seeds before and during germination. The molecule H 2 O is water and finally ATP is cellular.

The most basic plant respiration experiment will simply demonstrate that plants do respire thus creating carbon dioxide. In this experiment we will be using the same plant you examined in Lab 3 called Elodea. A seed contains an embryo plant and a food supply surrounded by a seed coat.

A great extension activity is to add aquatic animals to this experiment and see how the added respiration affects the color change. Photosynthesis the process through which leaves make food on their own is called photosynthesis. Respiration is a set of chemical processes that break down nutrient molecules in living cells to release energy in usable form.

Plant Respiration and Photosynthesis. In plants the glucose produced during photosynthesis is broken down in a series of enzyme-facilitated reactions to release energy in the usable form of ATP producing carbon dioxide and water as byproducts. In this lesson students design an experiment to provide evidence that plants go through the process of cellular respiration by measuring the acidity level in a jar of germinating pea plants.