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Here’s your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by the waggle dance.

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Enjoyed by honey bees and grandparents the world over.

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Here’s a passage about honey bee communication.

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It’s pretty sweet.

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And our question: “What is the method used by the scientists in this experiment?”

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This question seems pretty simple. It’s just asking us what the scientists did,

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so let’s take them one by one. Option A:

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Protein gel electrophoresis <<uh-leck-troh-FOR-uh-siss>>.

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This is a technique to analyze proteins in a fluid.

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It’s also not mentioned anywhere at all in the passage.

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So, nice try, test people.

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Option B: The waggle dance.

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While we don’t know what the scientists do in their free time,

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we know that it was the BEES-- not the scientists--

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who did the waggle dance during this study. It’s not B.

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Option C: Chromatography.

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This sounds more likely, and indeed, the passage states

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“the scientists generated a chromatogram <<cro-MAT-uh-gram>>.”

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Sounds like we hit the bullseye. Let’s make sure.

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Option D.

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Option D is honey extraction.

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Hmm, maybe they did that afterwards, but it certainly wasn’t part of the study.

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So C’s our answer, as in ‘Can you hand me some ointment?’

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Careful of those stingers.

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