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A student in your class made the claim that when animals eat fruits from plants, they harm the plant and threaten its survival. Use evidence and scientific reasoning to refute the claim made by the student.

Answer:

Electronegativity is a measure of an atom's ability to attract shared electrons to itself. On the periodic table, electronegativity generally increases as you move from left to right across a period and decreases as you move down a group.

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Explanation:
Before I go on, I want to bring up that it's not just electronegativity that is affected as you go across a period or up and down a group. Ionization energy and atomic radius also fluctuate.
Here's a diagram:
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As you can see, electronegativity increases as you go across a period, while electronegativity decreases as you go down a group. However, if this is true (which it is), we can also say many other factors occur, such as:
As you go across a period from left to right, electronegativity increases, ionization energy increases, and atomic radius decreases. In order for energy to increase, radius must decrease.

As you go up and down a period, electronegativity decreases, ionization energy decreases, and atomic radius increases. In order for energy to decrease, radius must increase.

Electronegativity is the force/energy required to acquire electrons and form negative ions during chemical reactions. (definition credit: from my computers dictionary).

Ionization Energy is the complete opposite. Ionization is the force/energy required to remove electrons from an ion. These strive to make cations while electronegative ions usually involve anions (hence the phrase electronegativity).