Nutrients are reintroduced into the upper reaches of the oceans from deeper areas by the process of:

a. wind and ocean currents.
b. respiration of marine animals.
c. excretion of wastes by animals.
d. sinking of dead organisms.
e. their attachment to floating plankton.


A

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