starch and sucrose questions - (Feb/19/2006 )
QUOTE (aimikins @ Feb 26 2006, 02:30 PM)
I was feeling rather annoyed when I wrote it. after the fact, I was hoping I hadn't gone too far and Bioforum or one of the other moderaters wouldn't delete me 
he irritated me with his self-righteousness
oh well, WUTB. but I am glad I wasn't the only one annoyed
he irritated me with his self-righteousness
oh well, WUTB. but I am glad I wasn't the only one annoyed
Nope. You were for more polite than I would have been.
What folks like that should remember is that although we enjoy sharing knowledge, helping out and giving assistance, we aren't at the beck and call of anyone who happens to have an inability to use Google. Being polite and demonstrating that you have done some basic research will give you a better chance of getting a fuller and more complete answer.
It's also worth remembering that one of the first search engines was created in order to enable students to find information without asking academics.
I admire your tact and diplomacy, Aimikins.
-b3ka-
hi,
amikins, i do appreciate your response in regard to bioforum discussion with nk111. if i am not wrong this bioforum serve to answer the questions more related to practical questions while doing experiments rather theoritical knowledge.
regards
-payeli-
QUOTE (nk111 @ Feb 19 2006, 02:49 PM)
Hello,
Can someone help me solve these questions:
I did an experiment on sucrose (nonreducing sugar) where I added Benedict's solution. The test gave a negative result & showed that sucrose was not a reducing sugar. Benedict's is basic. What would happen to sucrose if Benedict's was acidic instead of basic? Why?
Also, what is the product of the hydrolysis of starch? I said it is many glucose monomers, where
(C6H12O6)n + H2O = C6H12O6
Can someone help me solve these questions:
I did an experiment on sucrose (nonreducing sugar) where I added Benedict's solution. The test gave a negative result & showed that sucrose was not a reducing sugar. Benedict's is basic. What would happen to sucrose if Benedict's was acidic instead of basic? Why?
Also, what is the product of the hydrolysis of starch? I said it is many glucose monomers, where
(C6H12O6)n + H2O = C6H12O6
QUOTE (nk111 @ Feb 21 2006, 03:38 PM)
I am not looking for someone to do my homework. The first question was a dicussion question presented to us by the teacher. I was hoping someone could provide some way to find the answer. I never asked for the answer itself. I asked for help to solve them. And this is a message board to receive help correct?
I don't think directing me to another website was a good idea. It is very easy to tell someone to search for the answer online. Anyone can do this. If you knew the answer, then I don't see why the reply could not have been a guidance to get to the answer by asking me to reflect on how the basic Benedict's test reacts with the bonds in sucrose and take it from there, instead of automatically thinking that I am asking for others to do my homework. That is insulting.
I don't think directing me to another website was a good idea. It is very easy to tell someone to search for the answer online. Anyone can do this. If you knew the answer, then I don't see why the reply could not have been a guidance to get to the answer by asking me to reflect on how the basic Benedict's test reacts with the bonds in sucrose and take it from there, instead of automatically thinking that I am asking for others to do my homework. That is insulting.
If you were asking for guidance, and not the answers, you would have posted your questions and then explained what you think the answers were and your rationale for those answers. That would be the way that you would approach your teachers (at least I hope that's how you do it). The teacher would then examine your answers and then point out the weaknesses and strengths of your arguments.
In this case, all you did was post your questions (aside from giving that very short answer that "it must be glucose monomers" without providing an explanation). That approach gives the impression of a student being too lazy to think or analyze. And this "lazy" label is not unwarranted. Your topic is so general and so simple that you can find so much information about it just by reading your textbook.
-Maru-