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(picture is a pic of cute colorful birds c: ) Suppose that you and a friend see brightly colored pigeons like these at a nature park. Because pigeons are usually gray and white, you both wonder where these colors came from. Suddenly, your friend says, "I have a theory. These birds must get their colors from eating food that has the same colors."

Is your friend's explanation a scientific theory? Give reasons to explain your answer.

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It is most definitely not a scientific theory. When you eat, say, blueberries for example, do you turn blue? No. It has to do with their genetic makeup, so their parents must have been fun colors.

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Well yes it is a scientific theory because he examined the birds and gave a hypothesis on why the birds are different colors, before we knew how birds really got their colors, this could actually have been a very good theory. Birds get their colors just because of genetics, we wouldn't know this unless someone made a theory, tested it, and reported it's accuracy.

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