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Are you likley to find zooplanton in the aphotic, benthric zone of a ocean

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No. Zooplankton feed on phytoplankton. Phytoplankton cannot photosynthesize in the dark. (The Benthric Zone is the lowest level of the ocean/a body of water, no sunlight can really reach there.)
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