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Here's your shmoop du jour, brought to you by proteins.

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They're just amateur teens who now get paid for...what they do.

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All right -- what is the best conclusion from the data collected from Experiments 1-3?

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And here are the potential answers...

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This question asks for the take-home message of the graphs.

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What's it asking?

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Experiments 1 and 2 show that most proteins have a higher amount of aggregation in older

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animals, hence the increase in fold effect, as shown by the graphs.

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Experiment 3 looks at four specific proteins and comes to the same conclusion.

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The first graph in figure 2 shows a large difference between young and aged worm insoluble

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protein aggregation. Mmm, doesn't that sound delicious? That's McDo—uh, never mind.

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...which shows that fem worms...these things...have a large amount of aggregation as they get older.

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However, the second graph in figure 2 shows that the amount of aggregation is less in

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aged gon-2 animals...

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...the special mutant worms that live extremely long lives. Wish we could clone those...

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* Therefore the correct answer is B -- all animals show an increase in protein aggregation

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when they age, but the long-living gon-2 animals do not have as much aggregation overall.

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Oh, well, guys. You tried.

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