Biological Macromolecules Lab Homework Help | Page 4
Unknown
Milk
Minimal amount of red outside of pencil Very little
line observed
Minimal amount of red outside of pencil Very little
line observed
Red outside of pencil line Yes
Vegetable
oil
Review the
Data Tables in Exercises 1 and 2. Compare the results of the Unknown for all tests
to the results for the various known samples to determine the identity of the Unknown. Explain
the identity of the Unknown using your experiment results in the exercises to help explain and
support your answer
Eggs are known to contain cholesterol which is a lipid. Did your experiment results indicate a
presence of lipids in the albumin solution? Think about this result and where cholesterol is
present in eggs to explain how your results support or reject cholesterol in eggs. How could you
test this? Explain the experiment that you would perform to test this