A handful of genetically identical tomato plants are grown in a garden. The mean height in this plant population is 84 cm, and the standard deviation is 2 cm. The variation in height within this population is most likely due to: O the microenvironment of each plant the use of a non-representative sample to compute the mean random mutations within the population. the difference between these plants and other tomato plants

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A handful of genetically identical tomato plants are grown in a garden. The mean
height in this plant population is 84 cm, and the standard deviation is 2 cm. The
variation in height within this population is most likely due to:
the microenvironment of each plant
O the use of a non-representative sample to compute the mean
O random mutations within the population.
O the difference between these plants and other tomato plants
Transcribed Image Text:A handful of genetically identical tomato plants are grown in a garden. The mean height in this plant population is 84 cm, and the standard deviation is 2 cm. The variation in height within this population is most likely due to: the microenvironment of each plant O the use of a non-representative sample to compute the mean O random mutations within the population. O the difference between these plants and other tomato plants
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