The correct answer is bioavailability.
<span>Bioavailability is an important factor in establishing nutrient requirements and it represents the degree to which food nutrients are available for absorption and utilization in the body. The amount of a nutrient in a food that the body can actually use may vary depending on age and physiologic condition.</span>
Answer: Chlorine
Explanation:
An independent variable can be define as changable variable, which can be used to determine it's impact over the other variable(s) in the experiment. Dependent variable cannot be changed manually instead changes occur in the independent variable is because of impact of independent variable.
In this experiment, chlorine is the independent variable. The effect of which can be observed on the hair color, which is a dependent variable.
Water would move out of the cells of the microorganisms by osmosis and the cytoplasm would become dehydrated, killing the cells.
The brine is a hypertonic solution, thereby "pulling" the water out of the bacterial cells.
