A scientist made certain observations based on several experiments he conducted regarding light. But the results obtained are not the same when his colleague conducted the same set of experiments. Hence the observations made by the scientist can be called as science.

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The correct option is B
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The various steps involved in developing science are observation, reproducibility and inference. Reproducibility means that the results once produced in an experiment should be the same when it is repeated for any number of times. Since the results obtained here are not the same, the observations can't be called as science.

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