3.1.1 The experiment
Follow Janet’s instructions in the video (or use your activity booklet PDF) to conduct the experiment. You will need about 1 tablespoon of sugar and approximately 200 ml of water in each large glass. This sugar will act as food for your yeasts to consume.
Take care to label your glasses with which variables you’ve changed – you don’t want to get them mixed up. If the environmental conditions are suitable, the yeasts will grow and multiply quite quickly – you shouldn’t need more than 30 minutes to complete this experiment. Remember that boiling water can crack glassware, so be careful to let the water cool a bit first.
Carefully observe and record which glasses have conditions suitable for the yeasts to grow and which ones have conditions that restrict its growth.
You will have the opportunity to discuss your results in the next section.
OpenLearn - Basic science: understanding experiments 
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