THE FINAL POST: A BITTER SWEET ENDING
THE QUESTION In my last two blog posts, I've posed a series of questions that I thought might potentially be interesting to explore into given the research data we've been collecting. This week, I intend to explore one of those questions and the question I've selected is... drum roll, please! Do starters with fruits classified as "bitter", have microbial compositions that differ from fruits that are classified as "sweet"? With this question, I intended to explore if fruits that have differing tastes also have microbial communities with differing compositions. THE HYPOTHESIS Now, with every research project, no matter how big or small, it is important to have a hypothesis. I always find that coming up with a hypothesis helps me to better understand the question that's being asked (when I'm not the one coming up with it) even more. In this case, I hypothesize that starters containing fruits ...