49. A researcher writes a grant proposal to repeat an experiment that was recently published by another researcher. Which of the following statements best supports the grant proposal?

Question

A. Funding this grant proposal will allow this laboratory to continue to study this topic.

B. Funding this important research will benefit science in the long term.

C. Repeating the published work will provide independent confirmation of the results.

D. Repeating published work with changed variables will extend the previous results.