Experimental technique: the use of parabiosis to evaluate hormone functioncoleman and his colleagues used a technique called parabiosis to evaluate if the products of the ob and db genes were involved in hormonal regulation of appetite and body fat. in parabiosis, two closely related animals are surgically joined from the shoulder to the pelvis. new capillaries grow between the two organisms, resulting in a shared circulatory system. however, not all compounds that circulate in the blood are exchanged between the two individuals. long-lived (slowly metabolized) compounds such as hormones are exchanged. short-lived (rapidly metabolized) compounds such as glucose and fatty acids are not exchanged. consider a db/db mutant and a wild-type mouse that will be joined by parabiosis. the db/db mutant has greatly elevated levels of both appetite-suppressing hormone and glucose because of its inability to suppress its appetite. in contrast, the wild-type mouse has normal levels of both hormone and glucose.

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Experiments in environmental toxicology can sometimes be manipulative experiments in which the researcher actively chooses and manipulates the independent variable. in hunt's study, for example, dosages of bpa were manipulated and the effects were measured. in manipulative studies, the researcher controls all the other variables in the experiment, so any health effects observed in the test subjects can be attributed to differences in the independent variable. in other cases, researchers use natural experiments in which the dependent variable (typically a measure of organism health) is measured under differing contexts that are not manipulated. say, for example, that an accidental chemical spill contaminates five ponds. to determine the possible effects of the toxic chemical on frogs, a researcher could compare the hatching rate of frog eggs laid in those five ponds to the hatching rate of eggs laid in five uncontaminated ponds nearby. this would be an example of a natural experiment because concentrations of the toxic chemical in the ponds were not controlled by the experimenter, but rather resulted from the chemical spill. drag type of experiment on the left to the example of experiment on the right. blood concentrations of bpa in college students are compared to their recent manipulative consumption of canned food items 2. the feeding behavior of fish in streams that receive acidic runoff from strip mines is compared to the feeding behavior of fish in unaffected streams. the deformity rate in baby birds from nests in pesticide-sprayed fields is compared to the deformity rate in birds from nests in unsprayed fields 4 tumor development is compared in mice exposed to five dosages of a known carcinogen in the laboratory foraging activity levels are compared in tadpoles exposed to four concentrations of toxic metals in the laboratory. growth of corn plants is compared in field plots sprayed with three different dosage: s of weed killer 7 bpa concentrations in the urine of people with diabetes are compared to bpa concentrations in the urine of people without diabetes - natural; manipulative

Which statement best describes a typical difference that could be found between the "analysis" and "conclusion" sections of a lab report? a) only the "conclusion" describes errors that occurred during the experiment, and only the "analysis" section suggests further research.b) only the "analysis" section includes specific data comparisons, and only the "conclusion" section suggests further research.c) only the "analysis" section discusses whether the original hypothesis was supported, and both sections include graphs of data.d) only the "conclusion section discusses whether the original hypothesis was supported, and both sections suggest further research.(the answer is b i just took the test)