Extra Credit Assignment 2: Worth 5 points
Read the below information and using your knowledge of cell respiration answer the questions
associated. Once the questions are answered, upload the document to the dropbox labeled
“Brewing.”
Barley & Oat’s Brewing Backfire!
Mr. Barley and Ms. Oat are opening a new beer brewing company, Barley & Oat’s Brews.
Neither of them has brewed beer before, but they have an instruction manual and the supplies
they need, including yeast and barley (which provides a source of sugar for the yeast to use as
food). The only problem is that the beer that they have made does not have any alcohol in it!
They can’t figure out why, so they have hired you to figure out why alcohol is not being
produced.
Mr. Barley and Ms. Oat have given you some information that could be helpful to solve their
problem. They found the figure below in the instruction manual for making beer. Ovals represent
processes and rectangles represent some of the reactants and products.
1. Which process produces ethanol (the alcohol found in beer)?
The fermentation of ATP