Albumin And Glucose Lab Report

Within activity one our group had made multiple hypotheses such as due to urea’s molecular weight, it would defuse through the 20 Molecular Weight Cut off (MWCO) membrane successfully, yet slowly. We also made the hypothesis that both albumin and glucose would successfully be able to diffuse through the 200 MWCO membrane. We assumed that this would be found to be true because of factors such as glucose being a monosaccharide, and albumin being a protein with approximately 607 amino acids.

After conducting our experiment, when looking at our data sheet we found that our hypothesis involving albumin being able to diffuse through the 200 MWCO was not proven. albumin was the one solute that was not able to pass through any of the membranes. This could have been due to albumin being the molecule with the largest molecular weight amongst the other molecules involved. This included sodium chloride, urea, and glucose. In spite of this, glucose was able to successfully pass through specific membranes. In spite of this, glucose is an example of a molecule that may require

We found our hypothesis to be true when looking back on our recorded date. Within the data sheet we observed that the movements when the glucose transport rate was constantly increasing as we increased the carriers. An example of this would be when the carrier rate was increased to 700 carriers, and as a result the transport rate had successfully reached .0031 in a drastically shorter period of time. As opposed to previous trials we performed with fewer protein carriers such as 100, which led to a slower glucose transportation rate. Increasing both the glucose concentration as well as the number of membrane carriers are also two variables that had played key roles in increasing the rate of facilitated diffusion of glucose as