A Dependent Variable Is a Variable That

question 111

Multiple Choice

A dependent variable is a variable that

• A) the participants themselves measure.
• B) the item that an experimenter measures to determine how it was affected.
• C) the experimenter manipulates.
• D) is irrelevant to what happens in the experiment.

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Definitions:

Parasitic Wasps

Insects that play a beneficial role in agriculture by laying their eggs in or on the bodies of other insect pests, eventually killing them.

Ladybugs

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Genetic Engineering

The manipulation of an organism's genes using biotechnology, often involving the transfer of specific traits, or genes, from one organism or species to another to improve or change characteristics.

Pest-resistant

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