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: Sarah ate a piece of shark meat for dinner, Sarah's levels of toxic metals have
Answer: increased or
The higher up a food chain that humans eat, the greater the levels of toxic metals they take in.

Question: If the population of Mona's city has been growing recently and there are more people living there this year compared to last year, what happens to the need for resources?
Answer: increased need
More people need more resources.

Question: A cell in a dog's large intestine shrank in surface area, which allowed the cell to take in less nutrients. This means that the cell's increased surface area allowed its functioning to
Answer: decrease.
In Life Sciences it is important to note that whenever a structure has an increased surface area, there is an increase in the functioning of that structure.