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Based on the passage, what does the author most nearly mean when he says that "tailed frogs are therefore perfectly adapted to the cold, high-elevation streams of Glacier Park"?


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Okay Ct aspire test taking people were still in glacier

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national park Eight of ten based on the passage What

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is the author most nearly mean when he says that

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tailed frogs are therefore perfectly adapted to the cold high

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elevation streams of glacier park Yeah Let's see the tails

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Frog is perfectly adapted meaning that it has evolved over

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millions and millions of years in a way that enables

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it to survive and sustain a life Uh high quality

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life in glacier park It's doing reasonably well for itself

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and all its friends from high school are jealous The

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quote does not mean that the habitat itself is good

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for tailed frog breeding is an egg Instead the frog

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adapted so it could continue to survive since it's now

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perfectly adapted well doesn't struggle to adapt So get rid

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of sea Life itself is a struggle But that's more

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of an existential statement that one that well with for

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what's present in the passage you can actually identify there

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so you get rid of that Finally the female tailed

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frog does carry sperm inside of her so it can

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fertilize her eggs But quote in the question stem there

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is summarizing all the adaptations of the tailed frog not

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just the one part about mating The quote includes the

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adaptations of both failed frog adults and tadpoles Yeah that's

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like so get ready Okay that's it It's b the

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