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What is the "great pacific garbage patch"? a large area of marine debris concentrated by rotating ocean currents a large area around the pacific rim where debris collects from natural disasters such as tsunamis an area in the pacific ocean where trash is intentionally dumped due to lack of landfill availability a large trash dump located in hawaii

Zoe decided to measure the hand length of each of her classmates. first she marked a line across each student's wrist and lined up a ruler from this mark to the top of the middle finger to measure the length. then she recorded the measurements in the table below. marla did this the same way for each classmate, and then zoe used this ruler to measure each straight line and record the data below. this data is invalid. what is the most likely reason why it is invalid? the ruler is marked in centimeters, but zoe recorded data in inches. the range of lengths is too wide, so zoe must have misread the ruler. marla’s complicated measuring procedure was overly confusing. marla could have been inconsistent while drawing outlines of fingers.

In general, characteristics that an organism survive and reproduce become more common over time. what mechanism of evolution causes this?