Question

Imagine that you are given 25 germinating pea seeds that have been placed in 5M hydrochloric acid for five minutes. You place these seeds after you rinse them off, in a respirometer at the end of the five minutes and collect data. Predict the rate of oxygen consumption for these seeds and explain your reasoning.

Answer 1

In the respirometer, it will be present no significant values of oxygen from the respiration process. The acid can denature proteins in a non-functional shape.

Step-by-step explanation:

The pH of the solution will be considerably low in order to the proteins to work normally. In this case, the polarization of sites in the protein will cause a completely denaturation.

A normal pH is essencial for the best working coefficient of enzymes an proteins in general as well as temperature.