What this student is doing is collecting data. So, he wants to check how many life forms there are in the waters nearby. In order to do so, he has to take a sample, and look at it through a microscope so as to determine the number. So, he collected a sample which is his data. He is not drawing conclusions yet, but rather counting these organisms. He is not making a peer review - his peers aren't even mentioned here. He is not forming a hypothesis because he is just counting at this point.
Endocrine system consist of endocrine glands that produces hormones. This hormones are carried by blood to their sites of function
1. Acceleration of impulse
2. Deceleration of impulse
When an ion or a molecule passes through a membrane without something facilitating, or encouraging that passage, such as a protein does. What drives it is the force of the diffusion itself instead.