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Name: Derrick James BIO 1131 Fall 2023 Lab 6 Assignment Submit to Canvas by your lab section’s due date Part 1: Write a sentence that states the results from the Gambusia trials that you conducted in the lab this week. Include the results of your statistical analysis. Insert the figure that you made in the lab based on that data, and write a figure legend for that figure (see examples in some of the papers you have read for this class so far). 1. {E.g., There was/was not a significant difference in the time that male Gambusia (insert species name correctly after common name is given) spent associating with large vs. small females (paired t-test: df = xx, t = xx, p < or > xxx; Figure 1).} Their was not a significant difference in time. Male # Time with Large Female (s) Time with Small Female (s) Large (xi - mean x1)2 Small (xi - mean x2)2 1 64.47 97.96 1556.854849 920.454921 2 131.49 61.93 759.718969 32.387481 3 86.31 132.54 310.358689 4214.476561 4 87.2 87.1 279.792529 379.431441 5 57.84 5.43 2124.011569 3867.720481 6 54.67 159.6 2426.252049 8460.136441 7 166.49 0 3914.128969 4572.599641 8 164.06 48.66 3615.977689 359.519521 9 166.46 12.08 3910.376089 3084.802681 10 60.28 70.91 1905.060609 10.817521 11 101.12 161.89 7.879249 8886.644361 12 134.17 93 914.639049 644.093641 13 10800.82133 4572.599641 14 10800.82133 4572.599641 15 10800.82133 4572.599641 16 10800.82133 4572.599641 17 10800.82133 4572.599641 18 10800.82133 4572.599641 Time with Large Female (s) Time with Small Female (s) Mean 103.927 67.621 Sum of Squares 86529.97828 62868.68254 Variance 5089.998722 3698.157796
Name: Derrick James Standard Deviation using Sum of Squares 71.34422697 60.8124806 Standard Error of the Mean 16.81599556 14.33363914 Correlation-> -0.4863657369 Mean diff. 28.62166667 SE 24.98398505 t value 1.145600536 df 11 two-tailed p 0.27627 Part 2: 2. What is your Research Question for the Gambusia Lab that you will work on for the next couple of weeks? Does the size of the fish effect sexual intercourse behavior? 3. What is your Research Hypothesis? The larger 4. What is your Prediction? If the Male fish is larger, it will be attracted to larger female fish. 5. Describe in 2-3 sentences how you will test your hypothesis. We will set two walls up with a small male in the middle and then a small female fish on the left and a larger female fish on the right. Then once I get my results from that I will then place a larger male fish in the middle than see my results.
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