The Effects Of Alcohol On Embryonic Development

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The introduction provides the background information on the ethanol effects on the embryonic development. The need of this experiment is to determine the rate at which ethanol causes cell death and at which stage of development will it affect more. According to their hypothesis, ethanol will cause more cell death in the early stage of development. They should include some information regarding the effects of ethanol on human embryos and how this experiment is related to humans’ development. All the information is provided is relevant to the study and doesn’t need to be

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