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A Plague of Frogs--Study Questions to accompany the book.
CHAPTER 13: Bad Boy
- What is the primary responsibility of the Minnesota Department of Health?
- How did Ted Koppel contribute to the investigation?
- What did Tietge think was the MPCA and NIEHS’s fundamental problem?
- What is SETAC?
- What effect would the seasonal rise and fall of the CWB have on the FETAX results?
- What is methoprene? Why did the methoprene experimenters use 5 different concentrations?
- Define static renewal.
- What does UV exposure do to methoprene?
- What were the results of the methoprene experiment?
- Describe the significance of the UV results.
- What was Gardiner’s special apparatus designed to test?
- What was the purpose of the resin beads?
- What were they hoping to find in the water samples?
- What invalidated the results of the experiment?
- What saved the experiment?
- What was the marker that Gardiner and Bryant discovered?
- What basic concepts did Lannoo want everyone to remember?
- What might be the source of Retinoids in the Minnesota water?
- What is DAPTF and what is its mission?
- Where did Dave Gardiner, Sue Bryant, Muneoka and Bruce Blumberg believe the focus of the discussions should be?
- Describe Pieter Johnson’s work and the effect it had on the investigation.
- What was the “bad boy?
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