Friday, April 18, 2014

Experimental Design

Design an experiment to test how fruit flies respond to various environmental stimuli, for example,  the presence of a piece of banana in various stages of ripeness, cotton soaked in various molarities of sucrose, cotton soaked in various toxic substances, various colors of light etc.  You will take data by observing the flies in a choice chamber as shown below.




List the following:
Your hypothesis:
Your null hypothesis:
Your independent variable:
Your dependent variable:
Constants:
The control trial:


Imagine you conducted the experiment with a banana and got the following data:

Perform a Chi-square analysis of the above data using this chart:

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