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Discussion

The zebrafish showed no signs of altered development due to the levels of pH used in this experiment. This may have occurred because the embryos were not dechorionated. Perhaps dechorionating them would have produced viable results. As it stands zebrafish are impervious to the pH levels that were used in this experiment. It almost certain that much more acidic pH levels would have drastic effects on the development of zebrafish because the protein layers of the embryos would be disturbed.



References
Fluck, Richard. Dr. E. Paul and Frances H. Reiff Professor of Biology.
Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA.

Gilbert, Scott F. Developmental Biology. 6th ed.
Sunderland, Massachusetts: Sinauer Associates, Inc., Publishers, 2000.

Detrich, H. William, Westerfield, Monte, and Leonard I. Zon. (editors)
Methods in Cell Biology, vol. 59,The Zebrafish: Biology. Academic Press, 1999.

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