Cellular Respiration in Unicellular Organisms: An Experiment

Intro

All living things are made out of cells. Some things such as E.coli and Hay bacillus are single-celled organisms other known as unicellular organisms. Other things like worms, humans, fungi, and plants are multicellular organisms. Unicellular and multicellular organisms need a few things to live. These things are a way to dispose of waste, an environment that the organism can adapt to, and these organisms need food too. Most cells take in oxygen, this oxygen that is taken in actually help give your body energy. How? Well, when the cells in your organs take in oxygen it breaks down the sugar from your food, and this gives you energy. This process is called cellular respiration. Cellular respiration is very important for the following experiment. This experiment is to prove that unicellular organisms can breathe. To do this will have yeast suspension ( a single-celled organism) in a small little cup hooked to a big oval cup by a small tube. This

The objective of the experiment was to change the large oval cups liquid from the color dark navy blue to dark yellow. The hypothesis that was made is “if unicellular organisms can breathe, then cellular respiration can happen”. Data that has been collected during this experiment shows that unicellular organisms can breath and cellular respiration can happen in any living organism. There were no patterns of any sort during this experiment. Also, according to the data table that yeast needs food to be alive. Errors that occurred during the experiment was mixing materials. For example, the water dropper accidentally became a mixer for the yeast. The way this problem can be fixed is to have one dropper for each liquid and keep that dropper next to that liquid. This will eliminate the mixing of liquids of any sort. Overall the findings of this experiment show that unicellular organisms can breath and cellular respiration can