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What are the criteria that scientists have to follow when designing their experiments?
What are the criteria that scientists have to follow when designing their experiments?
An experiment must be designed to answer a specific question and provide objective results.
How are the Avery and Griffith experiments related to the rules of experimental design?
How are the Avery and Griffith experiments related to the rules of experimental design?
The Avery and Griffith experiments followed the criteria for experimental design.
What is the purpose of designing an experiment to answer a specific question?
What is the purpose of designing an experiment to answer a specific question?
The purpose is to determine something concrete that the scientist wants to know.
Why is it important for the data collected in an experiment to be measured in an objective way?
Why is it important for the data collected in an experiment to be measured in an objective way?
What are some factors to consider when designing a scientific experiment?
What are some factors to consider when designing a scientific experiment?
Can you give an example of a rule that builders have to follow when designing houses?
Can you give an example of a rule that builders have to follow when designing houses?
What did Oswald Avery do to expose the insides of the dead S cells?
What did Oswald Avery do to expose the insides of the dead S cells?
What was the resulting solution after breaking open the cell membranes?
What was the resulting solution after breaking open the cell membranes?
What did Avery mix the lysate with?
What did Avery mix the lysate with?
What did Avery find when he mixed the lysate with the live R cells?
What did Avery find when he mixed the lysate with the live R cells?
What did Avery test to determine if it was the transforming principle?
What did Avery test to determine if it was the transforming principle?
What did Avery find when he destroyed the sugar coat inside the lysate?
What did Avery find when he destroyed the sugar coat inside the lysate?
What did Avery use to eat up all the protein molecules in the lysate?
What did Avery use to eat up all the protein molecules in the lysate?
What did Avery find when he destroyed all the proteins in the lysate?
What did Avery find when he destroyed all the proteins in the lysate?
What were the main requirements that a scientist should consider when conducting an experiment?
What were the main requirements that a scientist should consider when conducting an experiment?
What is a control in an experiment?
What is a control in an experiment?
What were the two strains of pneumococcus that Griffith worked with and how were they different?
What were the two strains of pneumococcus that Griffith worked with and how were they different?
Why did mice always die when injected with the S bacteria?
Why did mice always die when injected with the S bacteria?
What did Griffith discover when he mixed living R cells with dead S cells and injected the mouse with the mixture?
What did Griffith discover when he mixed living R cells with dead S cells and injected the mouse with the mixture?
What was Oswald Avery's mission and what did he want to identify?
What was Oswald Avery's mission and what did he want to identify?