Enzyme Lab Report

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Having been put in a group according to a Belbin questionnaire, concurring to a score, a role is given, which was applied during the experiment. In this group activity, I worked with other students to investigate the effect of temperature on turnip peroxide enzyme. Taking a look at the experiment as a group a decision was made on who does what, so that we are prepared to start the experiment as soon as we settle into the lab. We worked as a team to plan and carry out an investigation, having coming up with instructions as a step to step of how to do the experiment. Carrying out an experiment with a group to investigate enzyme peroxide from turnips, this enzyme helps with the division of hydrogen peroxide developed in the cells during aerobic …show more content…

For example one of the group problems involved me doing the turnip extract, I asked one of my group members which pipette to use obviously which cause problems later because it was the wrong pipette. During this incident my group members just left me hanging on the side and pulling their hair out of their heads and shouting let’s do it again this made me so upset because, I felt I was left out because, she did the experiment wrong so after that I wasn’t considered in the experiment instead of explaining to me they all took on my role while I stood watching. I waited till the experiment was over and spoke to the team leader about what happened who suggested next time ask me and not them. This made me feel like I didn’t belong there, I would have liked for them to talk to me about it because I released my mistake, but they all just walked away from the incident. During the poster making I felt I interacted better with my group because, we all had a part to write and putting the poster together made us as a team reunite and work better.