Unsuccessful Week

This week in AP Biology, our class attempted to do a lab about cellular respiration. There are previous blogs that  explains cellular respiration and the steps that occur. This lab turned out to be a complete fail. I was not able to see the start of the lab because of an extracurricular activity, so I can't really explain the whole process, but the purpose of the lab is to demonstrate the relationship of gas laws, the effect of temperature and germination or nongermination on cell respiration, and the relationship between dependent and independent values. Like I said, I was not in class during the start of the lab, so I will not know as much or be able to explain it very well. However, the purpose of the lab is to get germinated and nongerminated peas and put them in 6 vials which has a cotton soaked with KOH. 1-3 is placed in a room temperature bath and 4-6 is placed in a chilled waterbath. After that, you place 6 respirometers  in the waterbaths, but our respirometers got water leaked inside, so it ruined the lab. If the respirometers did not get water inside, then we would have to record the volume.