Question

A research team funded by federal grants is studying the coevolution of pain receptors in grasshopper mice and the neurotoxic venom of scorpions (one of their primary food sources) to determine how the mice have adapted to the venom of their prey. This is an example of
a. basic research.
b. applied research.
c. pseudoscientific research.
d. random research.

Answer 1

Answer:

Basic research

Explanation:

Basic research is very basic research. This research is related to the research that we conducted to increase our knowledge. This research is purely based on theory. In this research, we increase our knowledge related to a specific phenomenon.

In this research, the problem of the behavior is not solved. It is an important assumption about basic research that it is theoretical and not necessary that it will be right away. In the initiation phase of a researcher does not know anything. But later on, learning about specific phenomena gather the information about the topic and does their further research.  

In the above context, the researcher was doing basic research on mice and grasshopper. They don't have much knowledge about it. They learned theory and gather more information about this specific topic.