Question

Your class is competing with another class to determine who has the best plant color. Your class decides to test a couple of solutions to determine which would be best for overall plant color before competing. The class decides to water the plants once a week with 200 mL of the following solutions: water, diet soda, 1% bleach solution, and 1% salt solution. All plants are placed in the window that receives the recommended amount of light. After a month of testing, your class notices that only two plants are alive, but one of these two does not look healthy.

what is the control, if any, in this experiment?

A. There is no control in this experiment.
B. The control is the water.
C. The control is the diet soda.
D. The control is the amount of sunlight provided to the plants.

Answer 1

The control in this experiment is the corn without fertilizer.

Step-by-step explanation:

In the given experiment, the control is the corn without fertilizer. A control group is a group that does not receive the experimental treatment, and in this case, it is the row of corn without fertilizer. By comparing the growth of the corn with fertilizer to the growth of the corn without fertilizer, the scientist can determine the effect of the fertilizer on plant growth.