Simulation Of Glucose And Corn Syrup

We hypothesized glucose would produce the most carbon dioxide, followed by Corn syrup, fructose, and lastly sucrose. Glucose would yield the highest amount carbon dioxide because it is normally the sugar catabolized during fermentation. Corn syrup was next because it is a mixture of both glucose and fructose. Fructose is a monosaccharide and therefore would have less catabolism involved than sucrose, a disaccharide. This means that the fructose may go through fermentation faster within the 20 minute period and produce more carbon dioxide. We then predicted the test tube containing glucose would have the highest amount of carbon dioxide at the end of the 20 minute period, followed by corn syrup, then fructose, then sucrose. Our initial prediction of glucose yielding to the highest level of carbon dioxide produced was supported by the experiment. However, corn syrup yielded a lower average amount of carbon dioxide than fructose and sucrose (figure 1). This deviation from our hypothesis and prediction may be due to inadequate amounts of agitation of the test tube during the 2 trials involving the corn syrup.

The trend with glucose producing the highest level of carbon dioxide during fermentation, followed by

They even suggested that glucose slows the uptake of fructose if the two sugars are present in the same solution. Enzymatic carriers on the cell membrane of Saccharomyces cerevisiae have a higher affinity for glucose. The experiment also indicates the necessity for sucrose to be broken down into fructose and glucose before it go through glycoosis and prepare for fermentation (Verstrepen et al., 2004). Congruent to our hypothesis and prediction, glucose has been shown to produce the highest amount of carbon dioxide during