Dr. Sullivan is conducting a clinical trial to determine if vitamin Z can improve test performance of students in an introductory college nutrition course. Dr. Sullivan puts all the student names in a hat and draws names to determine if they will be placed in the control or the experimental group. The experimental group receives a capsule of vitamin Z and the control group a "sugar pill" that tastes and looks identical to the vitamin Z capsule. Neither Dr. Sullivan nor the participants knows who is receiving which treatment. This experiment is BEST described as

What will be an ideal response?


double blind, placebo-controlled, randomized

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a. normal weight. b. at risk for overweight. c. overweight. d. obese. e. morbidly obese.

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A) aspartic acid and arginine B) arginine and glutamine C) glycine and glutamine D) alanine and glycine

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Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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