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1. It is difficult to study biology without first sorting organisms into groups. The binomial nomenclature system is used to group species. What is the biological definition of a species? Why is this definition important to this naming system? What are the goals of the binomial nomenclature system? Give an example.
2. Explain why the quantity of nutrients in ocean water often varies inversely with the measured amount of dissolved oxygen in the water (which is to say, when nutrients are high then oxygen is low, and vice versa). Give a specific example of when this condition is observed
3. Most of the advances in marine biology have come in the last 200 years. What do you think are the reasons for this?
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