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A control can either provide a baseline, show that the experiment is specific for the variable or show that the experimental procedure works.

So if you want to determine if having more enzyme degrades sugar faster you include a control that you know will degrade sugar at a certain rate. Then you compare what happens in the control and in your sample with more enzyme you can see if your hypothesis is correct.

When multiplying DNA by PCR one often uses a negative control (an organism without the gene and/or water) to show that you only multiply what you think you are multiplying and a positive control (a previously isolated piece of the DNA) to show that the PCR was successful even if none of the other samples amplified a fragment.

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