Problem: Do nutrients have an effect on the rate of plant growth? All plants used were the same height
Two groups:
Group A – given 30 mL of distilled water for 7 days
Group B – given 30 mL of water containing .1 gram of fertilizer for 7 days

a. State a possible hypothesis.
b. What are two factors that must be kept the same (constant) between both groups?
c. What is the independent variable?
d. What is the dependent variable?
e. Which is the experimental group?
f. Which is the control group?
g. What must be done to make this experiment valid?

Penicillin is hydrolyzed and thereby rendered inactive by penicillinase (also known as β-lactamase), an enzyme present in some resistant bacteria. the mass of this enzyme in staphylococcus aureus is 29.6 kd. the amount of penicillin hydrolyzed in 1 minute in a 10-ml solution containing 10-9 g of purified penicillinase was measured as a function of the concentration of penicillin. assume that the concentration of penicillin does not change appreciably during the assay. penicillin(μm) amount hydrolyzed(nmol) 1 0.11 3 0.25 5 0.34 10 0.45 30 0.58 50 0.61 (a) plot v0 versus [s] and 1/v0 versus 1/[s] for these data. does penicillinase appear to obey michaelis-menten kinetics? if so, what is the value of km? (b) what is the value of vmax? (c) what is the turnover number of penicillinase under these experimental conditions? assume one active site per enzyme molecule.