An Animal Study Is Being Conducted to Determine the Effect

question 40

Multiple Choice

An animal study is being conducted to determine the effect of vitamin C on the development of common cold. The researcher gives one group of rats the vitamin C pills, and the other group of rats gets the "dummy" pill (placebo) . The rats that received the placebo would be called the:

• A) dummy group.
• B) double-blind group.
• C) intervention group.
• D) experimental group.
• E) control group.

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Definitions:

CORE

The Congress of Racial Equality, a civil rights organization in the United States that played a pivotal role in the fight against segregation and discrimination.

SNCC

Abbreviation for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, a key organization in the American civil rights movement of the 1960s.

Nonviolent Resistance

A method of protest and political activism that rejects the use of physical violence to achieve social or political change.

African-American Freedom

The state or condition of being free from slavery, oppression, or discrimination for people of African descent in America.