Manduca Caterpillar Growth Experiment show/hide words to know -
Hypothesis: something taken to be true for the purpose of
experimentation or argument. - Prediction: a best guess, an
educated guess, about what might happen in the future. Enter the
Lab - Overview The Manduca growth experiment can be used to
uncover the impact that temperature has on the size and growth
rate of an organism. There are three options for using the
experiment, the quick virtual lab, the full virtual lab, and
growing your own Manduca at a warm and cool temperature. In the
daily viewing windows there is a measuring tool* that can be
used to record the growth of each Manduca. Each window also
includes the mass of each caterpillar. |Quick Virtual Lab: This
tool can be used as a way to quickly gather data on one Manduca
grown in each of two different temperature settings and explore
the effect of temperature on growth and size in single animals.|
Full Virtual Lab: This tool can be used as an alternative to
growing and measuring live Mand