A Cancer-Causing Toxin Is Fat Soluble (It Is Stored in the Fat

question 23

Multiple Choice

A cancer-causing toxin is fat soluble (it is stored in the fat tissue of an organism) . In the following food chain, which organism would likely have the largest concentration of this toxin: plankton, small fish (eats plankton) , larger fish (eats smaller fish) , bird of prey (eats larger fish) ?

• A) plankton
• B) small fish
• C) larger fish
• D) bird of prey
• E) none of these answers

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Definitions:

Population Mean

The average value of a population attribute.

Population Standard Error

The standard deviation of a sampling distribution, measuring the dispersion of sample means around the population mean.

Confidence Interval

A range of values, derived from the statistics of observed data, that is likely to contain the value of an unknown population parameter.

Mean

The average of a set of numbers, calculated by dividing the sum of all values by the number of values.