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Assignment: Outline a Scientific Article BIO 229 Introduction: Main knowledge gap: What are the levels of contaminants present in various makeup products and what things increase contamination risk? Research Question: How much microbial contamination is present in used lipstick, li...

Assignment: Outline a Scientific Article BIO 229 Introduction: Main knowledge gap: What are the levels of contaminants present in various makeup products and what things increase contamination risk? Research Question: How much microbial contamination is present in used lipstick, lip gloss, eyeliners, mascaras, and beauty blenders, and what risks do they pose? Main arguments for this work: Dropping products/ unsanitary products and expired products increase levels of microbial contamination in various makeup products Materials and Methods: Analyses used to address research question: They took 100 microliters of each solution from each product and inoculated them on NA, MSA, SMAC, SAB, and VRBGA Detail used to describe methods: Precise measurements were used. Grams of product used given and all inoculation tests listed Tables or figures used as an aide to describe methods?: Yes, two tables and 2 figures were used to describe the results of the data Results: Main results of the paper: Beauty blenders were the most contaminated makeup product and all products had significant levels of microbial growth that can be a potential health risk How were the results displayed?: The results were displayed via tables and figures and explanations provided in the results and discussion Figure caption: A caption written under a figure describing what information is displayed and what things were compared/tested. It is a brief explanation located under the figure Table caption: SImilar to a figure caption in which a brief explanation of the table is given below the table Discussion: Results were reiterated and used to point out specific bacteria found in the makeup products used in the experiment and the concerns on health. Researchers also discussed possible ways to avoid significant levels of contamination such as not using makeup testers or sharing makeup Results did support hypothesis Authors cited previous literal to connect bacteria and its relation to other bacteria and cited previous researchers who studied ways that makeup contamination can be decreased  Authors revisited their main idea by stating their results again and the implications of it. They were interested in assessing the levels of contamination and what concern it posed on health, so after getting the data, they tied it back to how to prevent high levels of contamination and how it can be harmful to consumers