LAB Biology Lab

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LAB:Homeostasis of Gold Fish Introduction: Homeostasis is a word that is used to describe the act of keeping your body in balance. For example, when you run, your body maintains homeostasis by taking more breaths and increasing your heart rate. This lab will provide you with your first opportunity to design your own experiment. The nature of science: The purpose of science is to find answers to questions that we are curious to know the answer to. Generally, these questions have to do with the natural world. We always have to start with something that we are familiar with. The process of science: • Observation • Prediction/Hypothesis • Design and implement experiment o Control Group o Experimental Group…show more content…
Write 3 if/then statements that are a prediction about how the fish will respond if you change something specific about its environment. a. If I change _____________________________________________ then the fish will __________________________________________________________________________. b. If I change _____________________________________________ then the fish will __________________________________________________________________________. c. If I change _____________________________________________ then the fish will __________________________________________________________________________. Design your experiment: 4. Your control group is the “group” of fish that you are keeping in their “normal” environment. How many fish will you measure initially? (strong experiments always have more measurements). Explain in your own words what the control group is.…show more content…
3c above? ____________________________________________________________________ d. In your own words, what is an independent variable? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 7. What is the dependent variable for the prediction in a. 3a above? ____________________________________________________________________ b. 3b above? ____________________________________________________________________ c. 3c above? ____________________________________________________________________ d. In your own words, what is the dependent variable? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 8. Set-up the data table below, showing you understand how you would take data for this experiment. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |

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