You are hired by a pesticide company to determine whether its new pesticide ("Zap-em") is effective at controlling soybean aphids, an invasive species that costs American farmers millions of dollars a year in crop damage and control costs. Describe an

experiment you would perform to test the effectiveness of Zap-em.

What will be an ideal response?


Students' answers will vary but should include all of the following components:
A. replicate plots (It would be inappropriate to test Zap-em on a single field.)
B. treatment and control plots, assigned randomly (Zap-em plots need to be compared to plots not sprayed with Zap-em.)
C. dependent variables to be measured (e.g., crop yield, amount of crop damage, and density of soybean aphids in plots)
D. use of statistical analysis to analyze the data

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