An Animal Study Is Being Conducted to Determine the Effect

question 10

Multiple Choice

An animal study is being conducted to determine the effect of vitamin C on the incidence 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:

Ions

Positively or negatively charged particles.

Water

A transparent, odorless, tasteless liquid that forms the world's streams, lakes, oceans, and rain, and is the basis for the fluids of living organisms.

Cell Respiration

The metabolic process by which cells break down sugars to produce energy in the form of ATP, involving both aerobic and anaerobic pathways.

Organelles

Organelles are specialized structures within a cell that perform distinct processes necessary for the cell's life functions, such as mitochondria, ribosomes, and the nucleus.