Question

A group of MCC students was designing an experiment to test the effect of smoking on leopard frogs. They hypothesized that keeping the frogs in a smoke-filled environment for defined periods would result in the animals developing lung cancer. However, when they searched for previously published information to shore up their hypothesis, they discovered they were quite wrong in their original assessment. Even though they were never going to go ahead with their experiment (so as not to harm frogs needlessly), they knew that a more likely outcome of putting carcinogens in the air would be the development of

Answer 1

Answer: skin cancer

Explanation: Carcinogens may be defined as substances which are capable of inducing the development of cancerous cells in living tissue. The students described in the scenario, were of the opinion that subjecting frogs in a smoke filled environment fro a prolonged period will result in the development of lung cancer in the frog. The hypothesis might have stemmed from the thought of the risk in which smokers are very liable of being victims of cancerous cells. However, exposing frogs to such will not result in them developing lung cancer. However, carcinogens such as asbestos, vinyl chloride, benzene, nickel and so one have large tendency of resulting in skin cancer when exposed to air.