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A wolf can be considered as both a secondary and primary consumer because they feed on both primary and primary and secondary consumers. As a secondary consumer, wolves can feed on plant eaters [primary consumers] such as elk which is an herbivore. As a tertiary consumer, wolf feed on secondary consumers such as deer.
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C- Single-celled organisms and soft, boneless animals.
The answer is: A. collecting data
During this process , researchers would use their observational skills and record every notable occurrence that happen to the variables.
The focus on this process is simply to add all relevant data without making any analyzation. That process come later on after the researchers started to change the variables in order to see whether it would create a correlation.