Transcript Ants on Drugs

SUMMARY OF PROCEDURE
ANTS
HYPOTHESIS
Harvester ants are small in size and their
Q - will ants have the same reactions to certain
1. Put non drugged ants in the controlled environment.
colony is generally made up of workers.
drugs that humans do?
2. Observed control ants behavior.
These ants are omnivores, harvesting plants
Our hypothesis is that ants will have the same
3. Dissolved 4 different drugs into water.
and scavenging insects.
reactions as humans do if we give them the
4. Isolated 4 different groups of 3 ants per group into the
DRUGS
correct amounts of each drug. We predict that
dissolved solutions.
Advil and ibuprofen are both drugs that are
ants will have the same reactions to Advil,
5. Left ants in solution over night.
designed to relieve pain, swelling, stiffness
Ibuprofen, Tylenol, and melatonin as humans
6. Tested the first group of ants reactions to Advil.
and tenderness. Neither drug is generally
do.
7. Tested second group of ants reactions to liquid Ibuprofen.
powerful enough to cause humans to act
8. Tested third group’s reaction to Tylenol
strangely. Melatonin is a medicine
9. Tested fourth groups reactions to Melatonin.
VARIABLES
prescribed to aid in sleep; it is also a
hormone that eases the mind into a deep,
 Controls –
RESULTS
quick sleep. Tylenol is used to relieve mild
 3 ants per group
•All
the
ants
that
were
given
Advil
died before we could test their reactions.
pain from various causes. It works by
 limited recording time (2 minutes)
•All of the ant that were given liquid ibuprofen seemed to act somewhat
cooling the body, which affects how the
 ants left in solution over night
normal
just walked around at a slow pace and didn’t do much. The only odd
body detects pain.
 Independent Variables
observation was that they had some weird obsession with climbing the walls.
PURPOSE
 ants
•All the ants that were given Tylenol were acting strange, they ran around in
The purpose of this experiment is to
 timed trials
circles and ran into the walls repeatedly.
observe and record the affect of common
 the environment
•Ants that were given melatonin seemed dead wile they were in the Petri
drugs on ants. By first recording a group of
 Dependent Variables
dish but when the id was lifted off they “woke up” and were extremely
ants’ movement without drugs, we then
 drugs (Advil, Tylenol, Ibuprofen,
violent, they were biting everything and running around franticly.
compared the other groups of ants that had
Melatonin)
been dosed with the drugs. Through a video
 ants reactions
CONCLUSION
we traced movements of the ants and put it
The
purpose
of
this
lab
was
to see ants reactions to the drugs
on a graph, and compared the ants reactions
Tylenol, Advil, Ibuprofen, and Melatonin and determine weather or
to how humans are generally known to
not the reactions were similar to humans reactions to these drugs.
react.
Our overall errors were one over dosage of the ants we tested Advil
on and we had to re-tape the sides of the environment. In the end we
determined the ants reactions to these drugs were somewhat similar.