Research-Intro: Pillbugs and preferred environment.
Blog Assignment #4: Research Project Introduction (group)
Ayodhaya Kitsondhi, Kevin Gomez, Hannah Fairchild
- Photo of your research (research subject, or something relevant to your topic)
- Brief description of your research
For this research we will be exposing pillbugs to four different environment. One will be our controlled, which is regular moist soil. The other three will be adjusted accordingly to our procedure.
- Clearly state your hypothesis and predictions.
Exposure to different environment/odors will affect the pillbug’s preference to either the controlled environment or normal soil. We predict that pillbug will prefer the normal damp soil.
- Tell us why your group decided to do this research project.
After observing the pillbugs’ preference to different levels of soil moistness in a previous experiment, we concluded that the isopods prefer a moderately damp dirt environment. Now, we are curious how they will respond to soil environments with different odors.
- Tell us about any challenges that your group has dealt with thus far.
So far, we have had difficulty ensuring that this experiment and the variables are measurable and can lean towards both possibilities of hypothesis or null hypothesis.
- Provide us with at least 3 references for background information for your project.
After reading your intro, I think it's kind of similar to what we did in the previous lab. So for this time, is that means you guys will make up four different types of environment that have different smells? Searching for their favorite food and some diets which are similar to the favorite may help you a little bit.
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