Ascientist asks a question and discovers that increased temperature decreases the number of offspring that an organism produces. then, the scientist asks a new question about the impact of climate change on the species because

The options listed above are attached to the question above:

A) The scientist’s first question was not a scientific question.

B) The scientist modified the hypothesis for the investigation.

C) The results of the investigation led to new scientific questions.

D) Questions about the impact of temperature reflect an opinion.

ANSWER

The correct option is C.

Science is a very dynamic subject and scientists sometimes get results that are quite different from that which they expect. During scientific investigations, when scientists get results that are different from that which they expect, they normally ask new questions, whose answers are capable of solving the new observations or the results that they have obtained.