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Scientists often replicate the experiments that other scientists have already performed. That is, they reproduce an experiment by using the same procedure and materials as another investigator.

Why would a scientist want to replicate another scientist's experiment?
A. to publish original data that has not yet been seen by others in the scientific community

B. to develop innovative procedures that they can patent as their own

C. to make sure that the original investigator's data is accurate

D. to establish a partnership between their own laboratory and the original investigator's laboratory

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Answer:

to make sure that the original investigator's data is accurate

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i would say C because the new experimenters would have to prove the data from the previous experiments are still valid do to technology is always changing and could let us see stuff in a different way like the microscope did

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