Instructions: Read the case study "Is High Fructose Corn Syrup Bad for the Apple Industry?" Pay special attention to highlighted areas "Your task". Answer the Dad's and Bruce's questions in a...

Instructions: Read the case study "Is High Fructose Corn Syrup Bad for the Apple Industry?" Pay special attention to highlighted areas "Your task". Answer the Dad's and Bruce's questions in a worksheet file. The questions are re-typed below for your convenience. Save your worksheet file as LastnameCHE106weeek6.doc and upload it back into a submission area. Lab 6: Case Study in Scientific Method and Trend Evaluation "Is High Fructose Corn Syrup Bad for the Apple Industry?" Modified and used with permission from http://sciencecases.lib.buffalo.edu/cs/ Part 1: Demise of the Hives 1. What are the major issues that the authors are addressing in the article? 2. Why is acid added to the syrups? Are there consequences to this 3. What are the hypothesis and objectives of the authors in this article? Is this relevant to our problem? 4. Who would be most interested in the results of this scientific study? 5. With what I know about the scientific method, what should the researchers' next steps be to test their hypothesis and meet their objectives? How would I outline the experiments required to answer the researchers' questions? 6. How long do honey bees live? Part I: Analysis of Commercial High Fructose corn Syrup Samples 1. What do 42, 50, and 55 stand for? 2. What do A, B, C, and D indicate? 3. What does Table1 tell us about the relationships between HFCS samples, HFCS composition, acidity, and HMF content? Include the picture of your graph (you can insert a picture of a graph that you made by hand or use Excel or similar program to create a graph 4. Explain why you chose the particular axes on the ph. 5. What are the dependent and independent variables? 6. What conclusions can you draw from the resulting graph? Part II: Formation of Hydroxyl methyl furfural in High Fructose Com Syrup 1. What are the overall trends? 2. How are the graphs similar? 3. How are the graphs different? 4. How are the axes different and what are the implications? 5. Why did the researchers select these times and temperatures? 6. What do the temperatures 40°C and 49°C equal in 'F? 7. What can we conclude from these graphs? 8. Given the hypothesis I developed earlier, what as a researcher would I want to test next to determine if HMF is an issue in HFCS? Part IV: Caged Bee Studies 1. What is the purpose of the sucrose (table sugar) in Figure 4A? 2. Why did the researchers choose % survival at 26 days? 3. Why were these levels of HMF selected? 4. What do these graphs tell us? Part V: Industry Response 1. Given all of the results presented, what overall conclusions can I draw from this study? 2. Did the researchers meet their objectives and demonstrate enough evidence to support their hypothesis? If not, what other studies may need to be done? Would these assist in answering the most important questions facing Dad, or just be of interest? 3. Given all of the information presented, what overall conclusions can you draw from the study and response by the HFCS manufacturers? 4. What is the probability that the beekeepers may have killed off their own bees?