Lesson 3 of Metabolic Reactions Student Edition

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7 questions
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Draw your dialysis tube model. Answer questions 5 - 8 on your model.

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Did any of the food molecules that started off inside the dialysis tube end up outside of the tube? Explain what happened.

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Did any food molecules stay inside of the dialysis tube?

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What do the class results tell us about the structure of the surface of the dialysis tubing?

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What do these results tell you about what might be different about the structure of a complex carbohydrate molecule (like starch) compared to a sugar molecule (like glucose)?

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How do the differences between glucose and startch help us confirm or revise the ideas we have developed so far about why glucose (sugar) can go through the surface of the dialysis tubing but starch cannot?

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If the surface of the small intestine has a similar structure, what can we say about the size of the molecules that can pass through/across its surface?