How does the phrase cause and effect relate to the formation of a good hypothesis?

The phrase cause and effect relates to a good formation because the data written in the 'cause' is usually the cause of an issue. The 'effect' related to what happens that affected the certain data. This is needed for a hypothesis is because a hypothesis needs a good formation of data.

Things like cause, effect, result, etc. all tend to come under the category.

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They create genetic variations