Purpose: The purpose of this lab report is to understand and display knowledge of the information needed to be put in each section of a lab report. We must be able to highlight reasons behind including which type of information is included in the abstract, introduction, material and methods, results, discussion, and acknowledgements and references and why.

Abstract: The abstract comes first in a lab report and should between 200-300 words. It should offer a broad overview highlighting the most important information in each section of the lab report. It should include the question investigated, the experimental design and methods, the major findings, results, or trends, and a brief interpretation of the results. This is included in the abstract because it allows for the reader to decide if they will want to read the rest of the lab report or not.

Introduction: The introduction includes the context and background information from outside sources to describe why the experiment is relevant. It should also include the hypothesis investigated as well as the rationale to determining how to approach to solving the problem and lack of information.

Materials and Methods: The materials and methods section focuses on succinctly stating how the experiment was carried out through explaining the organisms studied, the process for preparing the materials and groups, the protocol for gathering the data for each part of the experiment, and includes how the data was analysed. It is included because it allows for the reader to understand how the data was obtained and have all they need to try the experiment on their own.

Results: The purpose of the results is to display the key findings, results, or trends objectively without providing an interpretation of what may have caused it. Also included in this section are the figures that help to give visual to the reader and serves to allow the results to be understood by the reader.

Discussion: After all the results are described, the discussion section is used to interpret the results and provide insight into the reasoning behind how the new data should be understood in light of what is already known about the subject. It should provide answers to the hypothesis and also should include possible points of error as well as future experiments that could be conducted to gather better and ore accurate results. This is included because it allows the reader to understand the impact of the results and be able to decide whether it is something they desire to research about themselves using updated experiments.

Acknowledgements and References: The acknowledgements and references section is used to give credit to those that provided help or gathered information from. It is included so the reader can be able to differentiate between what the experiment discovered and what was discovered through another experiment and be able to see the other experiments and data used in the lab report but is included in a different lab report.