Is it Alive? Reflection Blog Post

1.  What pieces of technology used by biologists did you use? How did they help your investigation?
Answer: In the process of discovering whether or not my organism was living we used a microscope, a wet mount slide, and bromothymol blue.  The microscope was used to look for cells, we had to use a wet mount slide in order to do this.  And the bromothymol was used to see whether or not our organism could produce Co2

2.  What problems did you encounter during your investigation?  What solutions did you come up with?
Answer: When we first began our project we wanted to see whether or not our organism could reproduce.  However, we found that it would take too much time and were not able to go through with the experiment.  We changed our questions.

3.  If you could change how you collected data, how would you change it?
Answer:  I would probably keep a neater chart.  I've discovered that when it comes to recording data charts usually work best.

4.  What were the independent variables in your investigation?
Answer: Our independent variables were the bromothymol blue, water, and soil. (different experiments)

5.  What were the dependent variables of your investigation?
Answer: Our organism.

6.  Did you use controls in your investigation?  What were they?
Answer: We only had one control, it was a dry cup with our organism in it.  We also kept it out of direct sunlight.

7.  Did you use a stimulus to elicit a response?  If yes, describe how.
Answer: We used saltwater, freshwater, and soil.  We used them to see how our organism responded to different environments.

8.  Would you consider your conclusion to be a hypothesis, theory, or fact? Why?
Answer:  Considering that our organism did not produce Co2, didn't react to environments, or have cells I believe that our conclusion of it being non living is a fact.

9.  What did you learn from this lab that you will apply to future labs?
Answer:  You should always keep your data neat and accurate.  Also, finish ahead of time so that your group has time to prepare to present.


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