1.The diagram shown here illustrates a typical marine food web that can be contaminated with mercury. Based on this food web, which organism would you predict to have the Highest level of mercury? Explain your answer. 2.Using the same diagram as shown in the previous question (and shown again here), which fish would be the safest for you to buy at the store? Why? A food web displaying the connections between primary producers(phytoplankton) and consumers of increasing trophic levels(zooplankton – top predators).Credit: MBARItop predatorslarge sharkssmaller sharksmarlintunalancet fishpredatorssquidmackerelfiltererslantern fishamphipodsocean sunfishzooplanktonshrimpсорероdspteropodsphytoplanktondinoflagellatesdiatoms01996 Encyolopaedia Britannioa, Ino.

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The diagram shown here illustrates a typical marine food web that can be contaminated with mercury. Based on this food web, which organism would you predict to have the Highest level of mercury? Explain your answer. 2.Using the same diagram as shown in the previous question (and shown again here), which fish would be the safest for you to buy at the store? Why?

The diagram shown here illustrates a typical marine food web that can be contaminated with mercury. Based on this food web, which organism would you predict to have the Highest level of mercury? Explain your answer. 2.Using the same diagram as shown in the previous question (and shown again here), which fish would be the safest for you to buy at the store? Why?

Biology Today and Tomorrow without Physiology (MindTap Course List)

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ISBN:9781305117396

Author:Cecie Starr, Christine Evers, Lisa Starr

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Chapter16: Population Ecology

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