Possible inconsistencies that may have been experienced during this experiment are the lack of equal amounts of eggs in each gathered sample. Though the samples were stirred beforehand, the amount of eggs pipetted out onto a slide have very little chance of being exactly the same. This could have attributed to our results showing that a lower proportion of diesel to seawater somehow garnered more lysed eggs than the higher proportion of diesel to seawater. Possible sources of error are generally due to human error. Perhaps the ratio of diesel to seawater was miscalculated at any point, or the trial samples were mixed up. Future work that may be conducted in relation to this experiment may include testing out different pollutants and their effects on sea urchin larval development and fertilization success.
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