A scientist is trying to increase the number of cells grown in the lab. After giving 3 different
treatments, she obtained the results presented in the table below.
Percent survival of cell cultures
Cell Type
Treatment A
Treatment B
Treatment C
HeLa*
79%
25%
54%
Stem
56%
18%
81%
Kidney
18%
9%
2%
T cells
22%
22%
22%
*HeLa cells come from an immortal human cancer cell line. They were taken from a patient, Ms. Henrietta Lacks, in 1951
and have been continuously grown for research to this day. Ms. Lacks' cells have been credited with helping find a cure
for polio as well as becoming an effective model to study (and hopefully cure) cancer.
What one of the following represents possible dependent and independent variables for
the investigation in this scenario?
ODV = treatment; IV = percent survival of cell cultures
ODV = percent survival of cell cultures; IV = treatment
DV treatment; IV = cell type
? DV = cell type; IV = treatment
ODV = cell type; IV = percent survival of cell cultures