Week14+Background+Knowledge

Week 14: Background knowledge.

__Introduction__: The honors program is taking a turn, aiming to building our skills as future scientists, I mean REAL scientists. Each week we will focus on one particular skill that a reseracher needs to have.

In a very short outline we will practice: A. to recognize what background one needs to have before starting a study. B. to design an effective research question, and recognize the purpose of the study.. C. to understand types of methods D. to interpret evidence E. to design a CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT, to eliminate alternative interpretations.

To start, this week will focus on A. Recognizing the background ones needs to have, As an example, I chose a study called "Taste of Fructose revs Metabolism". It's as Science News article: and now you have it attached here.

__Question 1__: What do you need to know in order to understand the article? a. Point out at least three key words and/or concepts. b. Explain at least one of these concepts / keywords after looking them up somewhere. Quote your source. (This question was revised on Monday April 9th)

__Question 2__: What did the researchers observe (or learned that others observed) that trigerred this work? In otehr words - what was the problem that they were trying to solve?

__Question 3__: What did the researchers need to know in order to conduct their study, in terms of methods, human body functions, chemistry of ...., and more? Write at least three ideas.