uh???????...... how do i do that? I'm typing a essay for bio that wants me to describe results that could support or refute my hypothesis, when it's just and essay and i'm not really doing it?? How would i write an answer for that?
2006-09-16 06:56:20 · 4 answers · asked by seasidegirl_2004 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
my experiment : how temperature would affect the distance between sea slugs. I did that, but now it wants me to describe results that would support or refute my hypothesis.
Hypothesis: If the temperture is is cold, then the slugs would move closer together.
2006-09-16 07:19:41 · update #1
Well, if the results support your hypothesis, you will find that sea slugs move closer together the colder the ambient temperature. However, if your results did not support your intial hypothesis, you would find that either the sea slugs did not move closer together (no change) or that they moved further apart (opposite of what you predicted). If you are just writing an essay, it sounds like your professor wants to you to think about possible outcomes of your research and be able to interpret them. This is where you get to think and analyze what "could" happen. Best of luck! (if you did the experiment, what really happened? I'm curious!)
2006-09-16 08:44:16 · answer #1 · answered by natureutt78 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hello,
There are several steps that you can follow to get this essay done:
1- State the hypothesis of your experiment as clearly as possible. Ex.: The lack of water might lead to plant death
2- Conduct the experiment. In this case you have to set 2 mediums to test you hypothesis. In the 1st medium, you grow plant A and supply it with water (this is your control). In the 2nd medium, you grow plant B and deprive it from water. Then you run this experiment for several days (you don't have to do that, it's just an example to help you understand how the scientific method goes on).
3- Observe your results and record them . For example, the results show that plant A was green and healthy while plant B (which was deprived from water) replinshed. Set your results in a table.
4- Finally, you have to see whether you results supported or refuted your hypothesis. The hypothesis which you proposed at the 1st place was the following:The lack of water might lead to plant death. The results of the experiment have shown that plant B died as a result of not having water. Therefore your results support your hypothesis in this case. If it happened that the plant didn't die (which didn't happen), you can say that your hypothesis was refuted and you must give reasonable causes for these results and mention them in you discussion.
I hope that I didn't cofuse you and that my answer was helpful :-)
Goodluck
2006-09-16 14:32:02 · answer #2 · answered by Waterlilly86 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A hypothesis shouldn't mean you are just guessing. WHY do you hold that hypothesis? Are there any experiments in the book that would support your hypothesis?
For example, I once read a book that talked about how there wasn't really gravity, but particles of ether falling toward the Earth. And the coastline similarities that we associate with plate techtonics was not because South America had moved away from Africa, but because the Earth had expanded.
Had I been refuting this hypothesis, I would have cited the Michelson-Morley experiment that disproved the existence of ether. I don't have to do the experiment.
2006-09-16 14:01:40 · answer #3 · answered by TychaBrahe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ok 1st and foremost what is the lab? what is the aim n title ....... i can help u wit dat but not unless i kno wut the aim n title is
2006-09-16 14:04:22 · answer #4 · answered by kymz 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋