In this task, you are given a question and answer for that. The answer will fill in the blank or will complete the unfinished question. Your task is to provide an explanation based on the given question or fill-in-the-blank statement, and answer.

Question: If Jim samples water that is close to the shore and water that is far from the shore, which sample will contain less nutrients? 
 Answer: water far from shore
Water near shore generally has more dissolved nutrients than water farther from shore.

Question: While in the lab, Sharon and Joe were testing alkenes; Sharon's alkenes were much larger than Joe's. The melting point of Sharon's alkenes will be _____ than Joe's. 
 Answer: lower
Larger alkenes have lower boiling and melting points.

Question: If Mona is comparing two species and she notices that their DNA molecules are more similar, what does that tell her about the species relationship? 
 Answer: close relationship

The more similar the DNA molecules of different species are, the closer the relationship is likely to be.