Week 1 Essay Questions 1. Consider the observation that people taking Drug X for headaches also...

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Week 1 Essay Questions 1. Consider the observation that people taking Drug X for headaches also seem to have low blood pressure. Design a simple experiment based on this observation, and include a hypothesis statement and your actual experimental design for the study. 2. Imagine that in 2020 you are the top biologist at a research station studying biodiversity in Costa Rica. A young scientist brings you a sample from a previously unexplored site. She asks you to look at the sample and determine whether it indeed contains microscopic, living organisms. As you begin your investigations, you must first decide what characteristics distinguish life from nonlife. How would you differentiate a living organism from nonliving matter (including viruses and prions)? 3. It was a commonly held notion that humans should consume eight glasses of water a day until recent scientific evidence called this practice into question. What chemical properties of water do you think contributed to the acceptance of this hypothesis? 4. If you were to use a parts of a town/city to describe the way a cell’s organelles work together what would the “town function” of each organelle presented this week be. For example, Lysosomes would be the town’s recycling center.

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Week 1 Essay Questions Consider the observation that people taking Drug X for headaches also seem to have low blood pressure. Design a simple experiment based on this observation, and include a hypothesis statement and your actual experimental design for the study. Imagine that in 2020 you are the top biologist at a research station studying biodiversity in Costa Rica. A young scientist brings you a sample from a previously unexplored site. She asks you to look at the sample and determine whether it indeed contains microscopic, living organisms. As you begin your investigations, you must first decide what characteristics distinguish life from nonlife. How would you differentiate a living organism from nonliving matter (including viruses and prions)? It was a commonly held notion that humans should consume eight glasses of water a day until recent scientific evidence called this practice into question. What chemical properties of water do you think contributed to the acceptance of this hypothesis? If you were to use a parts of a town/city to describe the way a cell’s organelles work together what would the “town function” of each organelle presented this week be. For example, Lysosomes would be the town’s recycling center.

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1. The hypothesis is that patients taking drug X have low blood 
pressure which can be caused due to severe inflammation of 
organs inside  the body.  
The experiment is done by taking two groups of people. One 
group is given drug X and the other group is not given any drug. 
If after many trials people taking drug X have the low blood 
pressure then the hypothesis of people taking drug X have low 
blood pressure hold true provided the group that have not 
been exposed to drug X have no cases of low blood pressure. 
Also all other conditions except intake of drug X should be kept 
common for both of them and both the groups of people 
should face exactly the same conditions except intake of    
drug X.
2. To differentiate a lving organism from a non – living one  the 
following should be checked –  
(a)  Growth – All living organisms are generally known to have 
the property of  growth which is not normally not found in 
non – living matter  and can serve as an important 
parameter of differentiation. But there may be exceptional 
cases in which non living objects like mountains,

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