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negative control
[noun]
In science, a negative control refers to a system that is identical to a treatment in all ways with the specific exception of the treatment itself. Thus, the negative control provides a measure of the natural fluctuations of a dependent variable due to factors other than the experimental treatment. For more information, see our module Experimentation in Scientific Research.
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