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Hi I need help and quick. My project is about organic and GMO soybeans. I want to find which has the most chemical energy, mass, and which produce more. So far I know that for mass I'm going to weigh it and see which one is bigger. For chemical energy I have a homemade calorimeter to measure which has more energy. The only thing I'm missing is which produce more for example which produces more protein, or oil. I just can't use anything hazardous, in my project so Kjedhal method is out of the picture to measure exactly how much protein. I don't know how to measure the oil of a soybean because they are dry right now. I also can't measure how much biofuel they produce because it has methanol which is under hazardous. I need help and quick. I want to make another expirement under production so it can improve my project any ideas? It due in a week

Hello:

You will probably get a faster answer in the life sciences forum than in the physical sciences forum. Would you like me to move your question there?

I'm confused by your first comment:

for mass I'm going to weigh it and see which one is bigger.

The size of individual soybeans is not a controlled measurement, so I'm not sure what you're measuring or if it has any significance.

Looking for differences at the soybean level (and not the gene level) will probably not give you any meaningful data. The concerns about GMO foods are mostly superstition, so you will have trouble finding any science to study, sorry.

Keith

Thank you Keith for your reply can you please repost in life sciences?
On the comment you were confused on was me measuring the mass, how much the weight difference between an GMO and an organic. I already performed that part of the expirement and the results was very significant the organic soybeans visually were whiter cleaner and bigger in fact the organic weighed a hundred times more then the GMO. I will do some research about the gene level of the soybean thank you for your reply