Experiment 1: Find the Best Mouse Diet for Weight Gain Background Procedures Lab

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Experiment 1: Find the Best Mouse Diet for Weight Gain

Background Procedures Lab Notes Print Experiment 1: Find the Best Mouse Diet for Weight Gain 1. In your Lab Notes, write a hypothesis about the best food source for mouse weight gain. Click Save Notes. 2. Place a light box and a balance from the Instruments shelf onto the workbench. 3. Place a mouse cage from the Containers shelf onto the workbench. A 9 yi Containers Materials Instruments Se 68 4. Move the cage onto the balance. The value you see displayed is the mass of the cage, a full water bottle, and the other materials inside the cage. 5. Press the ZERO button on the balance with the cage on it. The balance should now read 0.000 g. 6. Take a mouse from the Materials shelf and place it into the cage. 7. If the balance has been appropriately zeroed, the reading on the balance should reflect the mass of the mouse alone. Record the mass in your Lab Notes. Remember to click WASTE RECYCLE BIN

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1). Feeding the mice with raw steak helps it to gain more weight.

Hypothesis: As the steak contains more fat, the metabolism will slows down, so the body weight increases.

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