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What portion of the ocean contains the highest biodiversity and the greatest productivity?

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Answer:The continental shelf.

Step-by-step explanation:

Continental shelf is the surbmarged part of a Continient in swallow ocean.

The richness in biodervasity is due to

1.shallowness of this region This characteristics permit easy penetration of sunlight for phytoplanktons and other primary producers t o supply enough food materials in thr food chains.

2.it is also the site for abundant oxygen from photolysis of water

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