Week 3 assignment 150 Words

Please review Section 6.1-6.6.  What would you want to study?  If you could create a poll or survey, what would your topic be?

Describe your population (the type of person you want), sample (n = ?), one to three questions you would ask, and how you would graph the results.

Student Example:

As a science major, I have always been interested in the field of microbiology and infectious diseases. Therefore, my population would be microorganisms. During my first undergraduate studies, I conducted an experiment observing the effects of coconut oil on biofilm formation of Staphylococcus epidermidis, using three common strains typically found on your skin (n=3). Those strains were RP62A (super biofilm former), 1457 (mild biofilm former), and a delete that lacks the biofilm forming gene (control). These sampled were incubated overnight to form the biofilm, then diluted and incubated with coconut oil, and stained the following day with a dye to observe whether the coconut oil had any effect on the amount of biofilm formed. Some of the questions I would include are:

1. Are there any significant differences in biofilm reduction between the strains?
2. Is one oil more effective than the other?

I will attach my own graph I made on excel using the results I obtained during my undergraduate studies. The following graph is a bar graph and the questions can be answered by interpreting the results graphed.