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ACT Question for May 20th

Because amphibian eggs lack a hard outer shell, their DNA can be damaged by exposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation in sunlight. The following figure shows the percent of eggs that survived to hatching in the lab for these 7 species after exposure to unfiltered sunlight or to sunlight from which the UV radiation had been filtered out.

Based on the information in the Figure, eggs from which species are most likely to survive prolonged exposure to sunlight?