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Well basically the "control" group is the part of the procedure or experiment where the specimen or whatever your testing is separated from everything else and nothing is done to it, so you have something to compare your other results to.

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Why do you have controls in an experiment?

The controls shows the normal state of affairs, so as to allow a comparison with the experiment results, and to help ascertain that the results obtained were due to the factors tested in the experiment, and not a natural occurence/incidence. Having controls in an experiment can thus be said to validate the experiment itself.


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