How caffeine affects Daphnia heartbeat?
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An experiment to determine how caffeine affects the heart rate of Daphnia (water fleas)? Introduction The purpose of this experiment is to determine whether or not caffeine has an affect on the heart rate of Daphnia Hypothesis The Daphnia heart rate will increase with the concentration of caffeine. I based my hypothesis on the fact that humans heart rates increase with caffeine as it acts as a stimulant drug. In the experiment there will be several variables that I need to try and control, the temperature of the water is one of these because if the temperature is higher or lower on the day the results may end up being higher or lower, this would make my results inaccurate. I need to try and limit the human error in the experiment as the daphnia heartbeat is very quick so it will be hard to be completely accurate so we are using the "blind method". We need to...

