Question

A group of students was designing an experiment to test the effect of smoking on grass frogs. They hypothesized that keeping the frogs in a smoke-filled environment for defined periods of time would result in the animals developing lung cancer. However, when they searched for previously published information to support their hypothesis, they discovered they were wrong in their original assessment. Even though they were never going to go ahead with their experiment (so as not to harm frogs needlessly), they knew that a more likely outcome of putting carcinogens in the air would be the development of Select one:

a. diminished absorption of oxygen
b. tracheal tube abnormalities
c. skin cancer.
d. the amphibian equivalent of hypertension.
e. gill abnormalities in the next generation of tadpoles

Answer 1

The correct answer is option - C. skin cancer.

Explanation:

A carcinogen is a substance or agent that influences carcinogenesis which is the cancer-promoting process or forming cancer in an individual that experiencing these carcinogens.

In this experiment there is only one condition can be developed by the influence of the carcinogen in the air which is skin cancer in the frogs as a carcinogen has the ability to damage and disrupt the metabolic reaction in the cell.

Thus, the correct answer is - C. skin cancer.