BISC104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Scientific Control, Blind Experiment, Dependent And Independent Variables
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Notes prior to class- canvas clicker points are not up to date. Mastering biology will be due monday evening and thursday evening (11:59pm) Lab is next week: print out pre-lab flow sheets, do both activities to cover both activities. Lab manuals will be uploaded to canvas-print prior to lab or bring your laptop. Memory retrieval: explain the following, as best as you can. The main steps of the scientific process and an appropriate control for an experiment. Go over clicker question that notes ended last class. Designing a controlled experiment? (dr. smith feeds different amounts of protein to dairy cows and measures the difference in their milk yields. ) Sugar pill- looks like what your testing it just doesn"t. It looks like, smells like, and tastes like it. Consider this assignment scheme (subject pool---- female employees of nursing home who go to clinic because of cold)