Students carried an experiment and arranged their apparatus as shown below, to investigate a certain phenomenon.The set up was placed in light.

      

Students carried an experiment and arranged their apparatus as shown below, to investigate a certain phenomenon.The set up was placed in light.
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a) State the likely aim of the set up
b) State the role of the syringe in the set-up above
c) (i) Name gas X.
(ii) Write an equation to show how gas X was formed in the set-up.
d) State three factors that increase the rate of enzyme activity.
(e) Give a reason why the test tube is immersed in a beaker of water.

  

Answers


sharon
(a) To investigate the rate of photosynthesis;
(b) It is used to draw the bubbles of gas through the apparatus;
(c) (i) Oxygen gas;
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(d) - Optimum PH;
-Optimum temperature;
- Absence of inhibitors;
- Presence of co-factors or co-enzymes;
-increase enzyme concentration;
-increase substrate concentration;mark the 1st three, underlined words MUST be mentioned to score
(e) - To minimize temperature changes;
sharon kalunda answered the question on September 18, 2019 at 09:17


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