A Group of Students Was Designing an Experiment to Test

question 35

Multiple Choice

A group of students was designing an experiment to test the effect of smoking on grass frogs. They hypothesized that to keep the frogs in a smoke-filled environment for defined periods would result in lung cancer in the animals. However, when they searched for previously published information to shore up their hypothesis, they discovered they were quite wrong in their original assessment. Even though they were never going to go ahead with their experiment (so as not to harm frogs needlessly) they knew that a more likely outcome would be which of the following?

• A)the amphibian equivalent of hypertension
• B)skin cancer
• C)gill abnormalities in the next generation of tadpoles
• D)tracheal tube abnormalities
• E)diminished absorption of oxygen

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