The answer is bioaccumulation. Bioaccumulation is when toxins build up in a food chain. The animals at the top of the food chain are affected most severely because the concentration of toxin becomes most concentrated in the body tissues of the animals at the top of the food chain.
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Natural selection and selective breeding can both cause changes in animals and plants. The difference between the two is that natural selection happens naturally, but selective breeding only occurs when humans intervene. For this reason selective breeding is sometimes called artificial selection.
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B. The information will be reliable
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By elimination:
Information on government websites is usually impartial, so A is eliminated. Additionally, information on a government website is not necessarily easy to understand, so that choice cannot be the correct answer either. The only remaining choice is B, so it is correct.
Answer: The structure of the spinal cord can be described as consisting of all the above named.
Explanation:The spinal cord is the main pathway for information connecting the brain and peripheral nervous system. Much shorter than its protecting spinal column, the human spinal cord originates in the brainstem, passes through the foramen magnum, and continues through to the conus medullaris near the second lumbar vertebra before terminating in a fibrous extension known as the filum terminale.
It is about 45 cm (18 in) long in men and around 43 cm (17 in) in women, ovoid-shaped, and is enlarged in the cervical and lumbar regions.
