Question

To test how fertilizer affects tomato plants, a farmer divided a field of young tomato plants into 10 plots of equal size. The farmer then put fertilizer on half of the plots and no fertilizer on the other half of the plots. What is the experimental group in this experiment?

 A. All the weedy plants in the tomato field

 B. The tomato plants in all the unfertilized plots

 C. The tomato plants in all the fertilized plots 

D. All the tomato plants in the field

Answer 1

Answer:

c

Explanation:

Answer 2

The plants that are present in the fertilized plots are an experimental group in the given experiment. Option C is correct.

Experimental group:

In a group of the population that is going to be studied, the population that is the experiments are performed are called Experimental group.

Control group:

In a group of the population that is going to be studied, the population that does not receive any experimental substances is called control.

Therefore, the plants that are present in the fertilized plots are an experimental group in the given experiment.

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