To Examine If Microplastics (Less Than 5 Millimeters in Diameter)are

Multiple Choice

To examine if microplastics (less than 5 millimeters in diameter) are harmful to small marine organisms,scientists exposed marine copepods to either their normal diet of algae or a diet of algae with plastic microbeads added.What would be the dependent variable in this study?

A) species of marine copepod
B) algae in the diet
C) size of the microbeads
D) presence of plastic microbeads in the diet
E) number of marine copepods used