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Part 2: Writing Scientific Papers For the questions on this page (questions 8 - 11), read the passage and identify which section of a primary research paper it belongs in. Explain your reasoning. 8. Samples were taken every 6 hours for 48 hours and then every 24 hours for the following 7 days. Vials were gently mixed and 0.7 ml was placed in a Palmer counting cell. Density measurements were taken under a phase-contrast microscope at 700x magnification. Mean individual size (cell or body length, in mm; - 5) was measured in a single-species culture on day 7. (taken from Kneitel, 2012) 9. We hypothesize that the bioturbating behavior of benthic invertebrates affects the number of species and abundance of zooplankton hatching from diapausing eggs. We predict that the highest hatching rates would be found in the Asellus treatment due to their higher activity in the sediment. We also expect the effect of C. plumosus to be larger than that of T. tubifex. (taken from Gyllstrom et al., 2008) 10. We observed a total of 8 vascular plant species in our mesocosms (Table 3). The species observed are typical of vernal pools in northern California (Barbour et al., 2007). The number of vascular plant species in each mesocosm ranged from 1 to 7. Plant cover and species richness were significantly lower in the dung treatments than in the no-dung treatment (Table 2). (taken from Croel and Kneitel, 2011)

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8. These lines particularly describe the method of the particular experiment that was followed.

There are several parts of a research paper and this part is taken from the methodology section.

It tells about the process that was followed for the experiment and hence it would have been a part of the subheading protocol.