Marco Banks

English

29 December, 21:40

Which sentence from a research paper on the mountain pine beetle is NOT an example of plagiarism? A) The mountain pine beetle has a hard black exoskeleton, and measures approximately 5 mm, about the size of a grain of rice. B) The mountain pine beetle (MPB) Dendroctonus ponderosae, is a species of bark beetle native to the forests of western North America. C) According to Ramone Franklin, the mountain pine beetle "has a hard black exoskeleton, and measures approximately 5 mm, about the size of a grain of rice." D) With a black exoskeleton and measuring approximately 5 mm, the mountain pine beetle is native to the forests of western North American from Mexico to central British Columbia.