Ineed . i was doing my depth study and my experiment was to measure how the temperature affected the ripening process of a banana. my experiment was to put three similar unripe bananas into airtight containers and put each in locations with different temperatures. i would then measure the sugar content in each to figure out which temperature ripened the banana faster. there is more sugar content in more ripe bananas. and it is known that warmer temperature makes bananas ripen faster while cold temperature makes it slow.
my locations were my refrigerator, room with room temperature and a heat source.
so for my heat source, i made a homemade incubator with a big plastic box, where the heat was only coming from an artificial light bulb.
so my hypothesis was that higher temperature would ripen the banana faster. but this was not true. the sugar content in the high temperature banana, so the one in the homemade incubator, was lower than than the sugar content of the bananas in the refrigerator. it was even lower than one of the sugar content of one banana in room temperature.
so i did my hypothesis based on that but then my teacher said i need to find what could explain the higher temperature resulting in low sugar content.
but i don't know! i can't find an answer online. maybe its because of the artificial light instead of actual sunlight, or maybe its because i put the bananas in airtight containers. but i really don't know if this is right and i don't know why this happened.
now this is due tomorrow and i still don't know. me . i would really really really appreciate some . you for reading this far.
and i don't know what subject this is so i just put it in chemistry.