Writing a Scientific Research PaperScience Fair Background Research

Develop your question

Does the rate of cellular respiration in yeast cells change

if you change the source of sugar

Determine the Variables Independent Variable: Types of Sugar Dependent Variable: Rate of Cellular

respiration

Research You must provide background

information about the:1. Independent variables2. Dependent variables3. The subject you are testing4. Any vocabulary that needs to be

defined

What are you testing? Rate of Cellular Respiration

Define what cellular respiration is Give the equation Describe where it occurs Describe why it is important Describe the opposite process

(photosynthesis)

Describe Yeast What type of organism is it: prokaryote,

eukaryote- what do those terms mean Where do you find it? Where is it used? How does it relate to cellular

respiration?

Discuss Independent Variable

Discuss each of the sugars you are using: Maple syrup, table sugar, honey, splenda,

stevia• Describe why those sugars are relevant

to your experiment?

Discuss the Dependent Variable Describe cellular respiration in yeast Describe what you might expect to see

as an outcome in your experiment Describe why your experiment is

important to improving society

Bibliography You must collect data on where you are

retrieving your information in a bibliography!

Please use at least five different sources which can include: website, magazine, books, encyclopedia, etc

Use MLA format!