Biology; Experimental Design

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Growth Response of a plant toward or away from a stimulus

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Tropism

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A group that is not exposed to the treatment in order to make comparisons.

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Control

Front

_____________ is the method in which researchers manipulate an independent variable and measure a dependent variable to determine a cause-and-effect relationship.

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Experimental Design

Front

The plant hormone that causes cells to elongate (grow) on one side of a stem, causing it to bend is called _______________.

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Auxin

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A/an ____________ is a testable statement predicting the result of a scientific experiment. (Format If..... then......)

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Hypothesis

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Conditions that stay the same in an experiment in order to prevent bias are called ______________.

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Constants

Front

A growth response of a plant toward or away from a stimulus.

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Tropism

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A ___________ is a judgement based upon evidence obtained from research or data collected in an experiment.

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Conclusion

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The group that is exposed to the treatment, (given a version of the independent variable.)

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Experimental Group

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The ________________ is the variable that changes as a result of the independent variable. It is MEASURED.

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Dependent Variable