DISCUSSION: There’s nothing you can do beforehand on this type of question. Always try to support your answer by finding a line reference in the passage.
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- PCBs may have been released from blubber (lines 32-37). We’re never told that brevetoxins are stored in blubber.
- Lines 54 says “perhaps…offshore dumping”. We can’t be sure there was any dumping.
- Same as B.
- Brevetoxin accumulated in fish (lines 29-31). We don’t know if PCBs do.
- CORRECT. See lines 47-51. PCBs affect the liver.
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