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Eli keeps a worm bin in his basement because the worms need cooler temperatures to survive. He feeds them about one pound of kitchen
scraps each week. One summer the temperatures rose above the optimal temperature for the red worms (º 85°F) and many in his colony
died. However, those that survive continued to reproduce and within six months his colony was thriving again. The following summer,
unusually warm temperatures once again resulted in the basement temperatures rising above 85°F Surprisingly, Eli noticed that only a small
portion of the worm colony died. What is the best explanation for this?
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