Phillipe is playing baseball. The pitcher throws the ball, and Phillipe prepares to hit the ball with his bat. What is the ball doing right before Phillipe hits it?

a. to encourage apoptosis

the principles and empirical processes of discovery and demonstration considered characteristic of or necessary for scientific investigation, generally involving the observation of phenomena, the formulation of a hypothesis concerning the phenomena, experimentation to test the hypothesis, and development of a conclusion that confirms, rejects, or modifies the hypothesis.

when it is at an intermediate population density