To control for stress, the researchers should have frozen some bacteria at the end of the experiment and defrosted these descendants along with their ancestors before comparing their thermal niches.

a. true
b. false


Ans: a. true
(If one set of populations is frozen, the other must be frozen to control for potential stress.)

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