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Biological clocks. Many plants and animals have "biological clocks" that coordinate activities with the time of day. When researchers looked at the length of the biological cycles in the plant Arabidopsis by measuring leaf movements, they found that the length of the cycle is not always 24 hours. The researchers suspected that the plants adapt their clocks to their north-south position. Plants don't know geography, but they do respond to light, so the researchers looked at the relationship between the plants' cycle lengths and the length of the day on June 21 at their locations. The data file includes data on cycle length and day length, both in hours, for 146 plants.¹⁴ Plot cycle length as the response variable against day length as the explanatory variable. Does there appear to be a positive association? Is it a strong association? Explain your answers.