You would like to create an experiment at your house. You take a sample of E.coli bacteria from the toile
to see if they will grow faster if given different samples of food. You set up 3 samples. One sample of E.coli is placed
in milk, one sample of E.coli is placed on a piece of meatloaf, and one sample of E.coli is given nutrient agar, which
simulates normal laboratory conditions. After 2 days, you count 150 colonies of E.coli in the milk, 100 colonies in the
meatloaf, and 75 on the nutrient agar.
a. Based on this information, what conclusion(s) can you draw?
b. What is your controlled variable (constant)? The same sample item.
What is your independent variable?
What is your dependent variable?
e. What group represents the controlled group?_
f. If you were to graph this experiment, what information would you put on the x-axis and why?
g. What information would you put on the y-axis? Why?