Cellulose

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oxygen is vital for the survival of aquatic animals such as fish, amphibians and aquatic macroinvertebrates. Biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) is used as an indirect measure of the amount of organic matter in water, for example, plant material made of cellulose (a natural polymer of glucose). Aerobic bacteria require oxygen to break down organic matter from which they feed. The bacteria which break up organic matter in water consume large amounts of oxygen, reducing the amount available for other…

of the soil and its activity is an indicator for microbial activity of the soil. Thus, soil fungi concentrate in the subsoil and play a major role in organic matter build up by decomposition and degradation of resistant organic component such as cellulose, lignin and chitin. They also participate in the stabilization of soil aggregates due to their filamentous nature and thus may prevent soil erosion (Banda et al.,…

The experiment made use of two reactions in synthesizing 1-phenylazo-2-naphtol, also known as Sudan-1. The first is the diazotization reaction in which a diazonium salt is formed from the conversion of primary aromatic amines, such as aniline, to compounds with the nitroso functional group using a nitrous acid, such as HNO2. The diazonium salt was then used as an electrophile in a coupling reaction with an aromatic compound, β-naphthol. Recrystallization was conducted and yielded 0.18 g of a…

I woke up this morning and thought “I’m hungry”. I headed downstairs and looked in the cabinet for something to eat. Not finding anything I wanted, I turned to the freezer and grabbed toaster strudel. Sounds good, right? It tasted good too. Processed foods have become commonplace in our diets today, and may be contributing to our shortened life spans and declining health, so I started looking at the label. Only to discover that while my decision to eat was simple, the list of ingredients for…

One of the biggest problems we have in America today is obesity. Obesity is the condition of being grossly fat and many people in America have this condition. Being overweight and obese are two very different things. When one is overweight this extra weight could come from water, bone, fat, or even muscle. When someone is obese this is when they have only too much fat. There are many reasons why obesity is on the rise in America. Obesity is a dreadful thing that Americans have to go through…

Index Title: Page No. Chapter 1: Project Introduction…………………………………………………………………………. Chapter 2: Literature Review…………………………………………………………………………… 2.1 Introduction…………………………………………………………………………………. 2.2 History………………………………………………………………………………………. 2.3 Types of Timber Frame Construction……………………………………………………. 2.4 Advantages & Disadvantages of Timber Framing……………………………………… 2.5 Conclusion Chapter 3: Methodology………………………………………………………………………………… 3.1 Case Study 1 – Costa Coffee Green…

standpoint cows are suppose to eat grass. According to Michael Poll, (2002) “Cows and other ruminants can do things we can’t do. They have the most highly evolved digestive organ, called the rumen. And the rumen can digest grass. It takes grass, cellulose in grass, and turns it into protein, very nutritious protein” (Poll, 2002). As you can see cows are meant to eat grass, however, this is not efficient enough. Factory farmed cows are not fed grass because grass fed animals gain weight slower.…

development if the fetus the same can be said about many muscles and organs for example the appendix a rather useless organ but at one point throughout human history it was summarized that the appendix played a crucial role in digesting fibers and cellulose…

reactions have an optimum pH at which they work best (Howard and Loomis, no date). Generally the enzymes in plants work best at a pH of around 5-7. For examples, lipases work best at a pH of between 4-7 (Barros, Fleur and Macedo, 2010). Furthermore, celluloses, which break down specific carbohydrates, have an optimum…