Essays Tagged: "Fermentation"

The History of Beer in America: Describes the early roots of beer in America from the first breweries til the days of prohibition til present day.

the southwestern region of the continent, the native Indians were brewing a beverage made from the fermentation of a type of corn called maize. It is also known that the passengers of the Mayflower w ...

(3 pages) 80 0 4.7 Nov/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Short report on Heineken

st as its founder toured Europe in search of new ideas and technologies. As a result the new bottom fermentation method was taken to use. Despite the death of Heineken in 1893 the company remained suc ...

(1 pages) 82 0 3.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

Fermentation.

Purpose: To investigate the effect of temperature on the fermentation of glucose by bakers yeast.hypothesisIf to separate tubes of 20% glucose solution with ...

(2 pages) 91 0 3.2 Apr/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Biochemistry

Botany Lab Report on Cellular Respiration.

ocess by which mitochondria consume oxygen and organic fuel to produce ATP for the organism to use. Fermentation is another source of ATP for cells, but this method is by far, less effective in its yi ... tion, which releases as many as 38ATP molecules per glucose molecule in aerobic respiration. Unlike fermentation, which only releases 2 ATP molecules per glucose molecule.The first step in the process ...

(8 pages) 142 0 3.8 Jun/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Plant Biology

The following is a lab report on fermentation and its inhibitors.

ABSTRACTFor hundreds of years, spices have been used by sailors to inhibit the fermentation of thealcohol they transported. These spices, including Clove were used with good reaso ... ding Clove were used with good reason. Inthis study it was found that 1% clove solution inhibited a fermentation reaction by asmuch as 0.093ml/min. The clove solution also decreased the total evolutio ... . The clove solution also decreased the total evolution of CO2 by asmuch as 2.845 ml.The process of fermentation is better inhibited using microbial inhibitors such as clove,than the natural inhibitor ...

(4 pages) 100 0 5.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Staphylococcus studies.

are Staphylococcus aureus and Staphylococcus epidermis, the difference is distinguished between the fermentation of mannitol salt agar. Staphylococcus aureus will ferment mannitol and produces acid an ... t 37 degrees to grow bacterial colonies. After 48 hours we checked our plates for both colonies and fermentation of mannitol.The next step was to take one of our isolated colonies and mix it with 0.5m ...

(6 pages) 59 0 5.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Single Cell Protein (SCP) and its effects

d bacteria),. The whole organism is harvested and consumed, rather than using the products of their fermentation's or other processing. While SCP production may have potential for feeding the ever-inc ...

(2 pages) 27 0 3.0 May/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Pasteur

gotten him appointed the dean of the school of science at the University of Lisle.Pasteur saw that fermentation was not a simple chemical reaction, but took place only in the presence of living organ ...

(1 pages) 31 1 3.8 Jun/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Sushi and asian art!!!

nto japan in 7th cenrury from china or south east asia. Peolple began making sushi preserve fish by fermentation when there were no refrigerators. Since salt and rice were needed in order to ferment f ...

(2 pages) 31 0 4.3 Sep/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History

Root Beer

Fermentation has been used for thousands of years for raising bread, fermenting wine and brewing bee ... for thousands of years for raising bread, fermenting wine and brewing beer etc. The products of the fermentation of sugar by baker's yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae are ethyl alcohol and carbon dioxide ... ee in your soda and champagne thats all of the bubbles.To preform this experiment you must set up a fermentation in a closed system and capture the generated carbon dioxide to carbonate root beer. You ...

(1 pages) 58 4 3.4 Dec/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Biochemistry

Case study on the kind of food medium that affects the rate of reproduction of fruit flies

f the fruit flies. The sweet potato compared to the regular potato has a taste suited by the flies. Fermentation in the sweet potato will most likely give the flies the food medium they need to effect ... e was the thought of kamote acting as an to the flies aphrodisiac. The scent of sweet potato during fermentation compared to the sent of plain potato may have stimulated the flies more. Maybe, even th ...

(3 pages) 20 0 3.0 Jan/2005

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

A Comparison of Lager and Ale Beer

ate twovery different results.Another main difference in producing beer is in the temperature duringfermentation. Most ales ferment at around seventy degrees Fahrenheit, lagersferment about fifteen de ... n degrees lower. The differences in temperature cause theyeast to either rise or fall.The yeast and fermentation temperatures play an important role in theflavor of the beer. Ale and lager share the s ...

(2 pages) 29 0 1.0 Feb/2006

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

Synthetic Biopolymer: Polylactic Acid or Polylactide (PLA)

Enzyme used to make PLA: Ralstonia eutrophaPolylactic acid is produced through the fermentation of cornstarch or glucose into lactic acid using the bacteria Ralstonia eutropha. The la ...

(2 pages) 19 0 4.0 May/2006

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

Vinegar

VinegarVinegar is a sour liquid obtained from the fermentation (occurs when sugar is first converted into alcohol and then the alcohol is turned into ...

(2 pages) 14 0 0.0 Jul/2001

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

Yeast And Different Carbohydrate Substrates

ast cells will break down carbohydrate substrates into ethanol and Carbon Dioxide. This is known as fermentation and is explained using the following equation: C6H12O6 2C2H5OH + 2CO2 + Energy (210kJ) ... hat are chemicals produced by yeast cells. The enzymes produced by the yeast will only catalyse the fermentation of certain carbohydrates but not others. Moreover, different species of yeast produce d ...

(33 pages) 39 0 0.0 Nov/2001

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Energy Transfer between Cells

Energy transfer is involved in all cellular activities. In fermentation, the cells produce two adesine triphosphates as well as a by-product, carbon dioxide, a ... s them up and reduces them to NADH, cells have a way to constantly replenish its source of NAD+. In fermentation, the two NADHs produced from glycolysis are oxidized back into NAD+, meaning the proces ...

(1 pages) 1389 0 0.0 Dec/2007

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Bacteria Outline

s decomposers - Capable of fixing atmospheric N for use by other organisms - Used in production and fermentation of various food and as antibiotics and is being tested for insect control - Prokaryotes ...

(5 pages) 35 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Butanol

termolecular forces so allows butanol to have a much higher boiling point. Butanol is made from the fermentation of corn.Physical and chemical properties: Like all alcohols, 1 Butanol has a few differ ...

(2 pages) 10 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

THE ROLE OF BIOETHANOL AS TRANSPORT FUEL IN AUSTRALIA

, barley, wheat, sugar cane and cellulosic biomass (trees and grass) using enzymatic hydrolysis and fermentation. As one liquid biofuel, bioethanol has characteristics such as clear, strong smell, sol ... is consumed as transport fuel in United States.The basic process of bioethanol production involves fermentation of sugar solution to obtain a dilute solution of ethanol by adding yeast and distillati ...

(7 pages) 21 0 0.0 Apr/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Biotechnology

Energy Conservation

e going to discussing is the two types of energy. We have renewable energy wind, solar, and biomass fermentation. They have windmills for the wind, solar panels for the sun, and crop bi product for th ...

(7 pages) 133 0 4.6 May/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science