Passage V
Some oceanic shrimp are vertical migrators. For vertically migrating species, most of the population is found at the bottom of their depth range during the day and at the top of their depth range at night. Table 1 shows the depth ranges and water, protein, lipid, and carbohydrate content of 3 vertically migrating (vm) species of shrimp and 3 nonmigrating (nm) species of deep-sea shrimp. Figure 1 shows water temperature and oxygen partial pressure at various ocean depths.
26. Protein is a major component of muscle. Assume that shrimp that are strong swimmers tend to have a higher protein:lipid ratio than do shrimp that are weaker swimmers. On the basis of Table 1, one would conclude that which of the following shrimp species is the strongest swimmer?
Your Answer is
Correct Answer is G
Explanation
From table 1, it can be seen that the protein:lipid ratio is the largest in vm3