You Work on a Research Project to Test What Happens

question 35

Multiple Choice

You work on a research project to test what happens to a species of fish as dissolved oxygen levels decrease.You find that the fish becomes lethargic because cells are deprived of the necessary oxygen levels they need.This is an example of what kind of scientific explanation?

• A) Ultimate
• B) Predictive
• C) Proximate
• D) None of the above

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Definitions:

Car Sales

The number of automobiles sold within a specific time period.

Joint Probability

The chance that two or more incidents will happen concurrently.

Variances

Measures of the dispersion of a set of data points around their mean value, indicating how spread out the data points are.

E(XY)

The anticipated outcome of multiplying two stochastic variables together, showing how their variances are interconnected.