Jesse is interested in testing whether virus X causes disease in tomato plants. Her experimental design...

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Jesse is interested in testing whether virus X causes disease intomato plants. Her experimental design is to infect tomato plantsfrom the green house with virus X and monitor for disease symptomsafter 3 days, 1 week and 2 weeks. As a control Jesse will alsomonitor the tomato plants in her home garden, which she did notinfect with virus X, at 3 days, 1 week and 2 weeks. Is this anappropriate control sample for Jesse’s experiment? Why?

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This does not look like a proper control sample for Jesses experimental design First of all we are talking about a plant virus interaction and the disease that is caused by the virus We know    See Answer
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