Question

Estimates of current rates of extinction:___.

a. suggest that rates of extinction have globally decreased, but have locally increased.

b. suggest that one-half of all animal and plant species may be gone by the year 2100.

c. indicate that rates may be greater than extinction rates seen in the fossil records.

d. indicate that rates of speciation equal extinction, so an equilibrium has been reached.

Answer 1

Estimates of current rates of extinction indicate that rates may be greater than extinction rates seen in the fossil records.

What is Extinction?

This is referred to as the  the dying out or extermination of a species as a result of overexploitation, deforestation etc.

The current rate of extinction however indicate that rates may be greater than the mass extinctions at the close of the Cretaceous period according to fossil records which makes option C the most appropriate.

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