Biological Buffers I-Titration of the Amino Acid Glycine a paragraph-long introduction in your own words and a few sentences up to a paragraph-long methods section for next week's session??   as if you were running this experiment (easiest stylistically, our format is a scientific report) Suggested lengths: a paragraph for the introduction, some sentences for the methods (both can be longer if you'd prefer)   What needs to be covered in the introduction: - what is pH: define it

Biological Buffers I-Titration of the Amino Acid Glycine

a paragraph-long introduction in your own words and a few sentences up to a paragraph-long methods section for next week's session??

as if you were running this experiment (easiest stylistically, our format is a scientific report)

Suggested lengths: a paragraph for the introduction, some sentences for the methods (both can be longer if you'd prefer)

What needs to be covered in the introduction:

- what is pH: define it. What is an acid, or a base?

- why is pH important in biology?  (if you find the point doesn't become clear from the manual, try googling the question or "pH and proteins")

- what is pH buffering and how is it achieved?

- structure of glycine, responses to pH change

- logic and aim of experiment

How to the methods section:

- summarize the methods at a general "concepts" level, for example: "Titrating an acidic solution with NaOH until ~pH13 and observing pH change at each incremental NaOH addition, in order to observe pH buffering by glycine"