rine shrimp have been on this planet for almost 600,000 years. Their eggs can stay alive for years without being put in water because the eggs are covered in a dry cyst. Brine shrimp can live in a minimum of 1-2% and a maximum of 25% salt, that’s why they are easily found in places like the Great Salt Lakes over in Utah. Brine shrimp tend to be more active and drawn to strong bright light. When Brine shrimp are fully grown they, will have molted about 15 times and their length will only be about 1.3 centimeters.
In the various chapters that we have gone through in this class, we have looked at various things in the environment that can alter how an animal acts, grows, and evolves. Like in Chapter 51 when we learned about animal growth and development. Or, Chapter 52 when we learned about “learned behaviors” like the Pavlov’s dog experiment and the “innate behaviors” of the female and male moths. The things that we learned in this class helped us to pick our experiment. We wanted to test the manipulation of a variable that would start affecting the Brine shrimp while they are still in their eggs. So what better than to …show more content…
My hypotheses was that the Brine shrimp would grow and develop faster in blue, slowly in red, normally in the plain and purple, and almost not at all in the darkness. Our independent variables are the different color exposures of light and of course the dependent variables is the rate of development in the brine shrimp. The factors that we are able to control are things like the salt water concentration, the temperature, the constant light, and the water levels. The experimental group includes the petri dishes under the red, blue, and purple films, along with the petri dishes covered in aluminum foil. The control group is the petri dish that is constantly getting
In the various chapters that we have gone through in this class, we have looked at various things in the environment that can alter how an animal acts, grows, and evolves. Like in Chapter 51 when we learned about animal growth and development. Or, Chapter 52 when we learned about “learned behaviors” like the Pavlov’s dog experiment and the “innate behaviors” of the female and male moths. The things that we learned in this class helped us to pick our experiment. We wanted to test the manipulation of a variable that would start affecting the Brine shrimp while they are still in their eggs. So what better than to …show more content…
My hypotheses was that the Brine shrimp would grow and develop faster in blue, slowly in red, normally in the plain and purple, and almost not at all in the darkness. Our independent variables are the different color exposures of light and of course the dependent variables is the rate of development in the brine shrimp. The factors that we are able to control are things like the salt water concentration, the temperature, the constant light, and the water levels. The experimental group includes the petri dishes under the red, blue, and purple films, along with the petri dishes covered in aluminum foil. The control group is the petri dish that is constantly getting