Biology 5090 · O Level · Anaerobic respiration

Anaerobic respiration — practice question

Fig. 1.1 illustrates how temperature influences the rate at which yeast cells in a nutrient solution give off bubbles of a gas.
(a)[3]

Name each of the following: the gas liberated; the metabolic process that liberates it; the essential chemical constituents of the nutrient solution.

(b)[1]

Use Fig. 1.1 to determine the optimum temperature for the metabolic process.

(c)[3]

Explain the shape of the curve after $60~^{\circ}\text{C}$.

(d)[2]

Explain what would happen to the rate at which bubbles of the gas are produced by the yeast if the temperature of the solution is then gradually reduced from $65~^{\circ}\text{C}$ to $45~^{\circ}\text{C}$.

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