If applicable, tell enough about these natural history features so that your listeners can understand how the experiment relates to the organism. Describe clearly the biological question the researchers were trying to answer. Tell what were the units of measurement. Describe the statistical procedure used to analyze the data in the test of the null hypothesis. Describe the acceptance or rejection of the hypothesis, and tell what it means in terms of answering the biological question.
Visual aids can be helpful.
Include a picture of the organism in your presentation if the paper involves a single organism. You can also display the table of data from the paper, or summary table of analysis, etc. We will try to make an overhead projector available, so prepare overheads if you would like. In addition to your presentation, you will be asked to give an oral critique of another persons presentation. Both the order of presentation and critique will be determined randomly.