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When a scientist takes a small part of a habitat and counts the population, then applies it to the entire habitat, he/she is practicing _____.

indirect observation
direct observation
mark and recapture
sampling

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The correct answer is Sampling

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The correct answer to the question presented above is mark and recapture. There are various names for this method. This is used to represent the entire population of a habitat without actually counting them all. It can provide information on the abundance or scarcity of a given sample.
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