Your Evolutionary Family Tree: Step 4 Hypothesis

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YOUR EVOLUTIONARY FAMILY TREE

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STEP 4: HYPOTHESES

EXAMPLE

A hypothesis (plural, hypotheses) is a preliminary explanation for a phenomenon.
It is usually written something like this:

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THE LAB

Now, write your hypothesis based on what you learned in Step 3 and record it in your Lab Notebook.

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Go to step 5…

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Or go back to:

STEP 3: BACKGROUND RESEARCH
STEP 2: QUESTIONS
STEP 1: OBSERVATIONS
INTRODUCTION

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