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Scientific Method in Action
Read the research excerpts from Scientific Method in Action and answer the following questions for each.
The Strange Case of BeriBeri
1. State the original problem
2. What was the hypothesis?
3. How was the hypothesis tested?
4. Should the hypothesis be supported or rejected based on the experiment?
5. What should be the new hypothesis?
How Penicillin Was Discovered
6. Identify the problem.
7. What was Fleming’s hypothesis?
8. How was the hypothesis tested?
9. Should the hypothesis be supported or rejected based on the experiment?
10. This experiment led to the development of what major medical advancement?
Miracle Metal
11. What were the scientists studying when they made their discovery?
12. Write a hypothesis for testing their discovery.
13. What are the independent and dependent variables?
Fatty Fish Cuts Heart Attack Risk
14. What was the hypothesis?
15. What are the independent and dependent variables?
16. What were the results (data)?
Chromium Reduces Cholesterol
17. What was the hypothesis?
18. What are the independent and dependent variables?
19. What type of research studies were conducted?
20. What were the results (data)?
Fish Oil and Vitamin E for Rheumatoid Arthritis
21. What was the hypothesis?
22. What are the independent and dependent variables?
23. Where should the research go from here?
24. Make a hypothesis for this new research?
Scientists discover that widely available drug also helps fight kidney disease
25. What was the original purpose of the drug?
26. What could be hypothesis for testing this new effect of the drug?
27. If this drug works, what are the benefits to people with ADPKD?
New ‘molecular switch’ protein…
28. What amino acid is the key to a new therapy?
29. What technology was used?
30. What did the scientists do with the alanine and histidine?
31. What does this genetically modified protein do?
Research details how a virus hijacks….
32. CVBs are common in people, but what usually happens to them?
33. If this does not happen, what do they cause?
34. How do these CVBs usually enter the body?
Study by Einstein researchers…
35. What has been show to cause lab rats to overeat?
36. What is the suggestion for treating this?
37. If this was applied to humans, what could a hypothesis be for this research?
38. What are the independent and dependent variables?
Smallpox
39. What would Jenner’s hypothesis be for testing his idea that cowpox protects against smallpox?
40. How did he test his hypothesis?
41. Should the hypothesis be supported or rejected based on the experiment?
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