Hepatitis C Lab Report

In the known HCV status experiments, I ran the assay four times for each sample and then used the mean of the four to evaluate the levels of HCV. I did this because I wanted to get accurate results. I believe if you repeat the experiment many times, the mean of the results will get closer to the true mean. During my science classes, we gained knowledge through repeated observation. For example, we used error bar where we are trying to compare experiment with controls in Biology. Hepatitis C virus is really difficult to isolate so scientists compared DNA copies of HCV clones and identified one DNA sequence in all clones. We can’t measure perfectly so the results may be meaningless and we used error bar to used on graphs to show the error. Most
There are two types of Hepatitis C which it is chronic hepatitis and acute hepatitis. I believe it won’t change in the experiment because it is interesting to see acute hepatitis that lasted for few weeks to about six months. But chronic hepatitis is severe and it is most common than acute hepatitis. There are six types of HCV which it is genotypes. It could be control, but I believe non hepatitis is the best for control because it is really understanding to compare and contrast the groups in the data. It is also interesting to see genotypes compare to two different types of hepatitis C. Also, patients with hepatitis caused by alcohol or primary biliary cirrhosis will be interesting to see their HCV antibody levels as control group.

I rejected my hypothesis because acute hepatitis C and non hepatitis showed similar that it is less than 3000 cpm for hepatitis patients and blood donors. If it is greater than 3,549 cpm, it will show that it is positive results. Acute hepatitis C is a disease that it is short term infection and caused by hepatitis C by contracting with infected blood or bodily fluids. Non-hepatitis who have no history of passing HCV and they are normal blood
I couldn’t assume if they had hepatitis C they were positive and if they didn’t have hepatitis C they were negative. During my experience, my classmate who have HCV, believed he didn’t have it because he didn’t have any symptoms. On the other hand, one lady who have positive didn’t have HCV and it is able to clear the virus on their own. I believe it is complicated and that is why we need to run assays on the donors to make sure that they are negative or