<span>Desertification is the cancer of the earth,” Argentine geographer Elena Abraham told IPS. “It is a process of degradation that does not manifest itself in spectacular ways but furtively advances, and by the time it is visible there is nothing to be done, and people have to move away, in search of an alternative.”</span>
<span>Punctuated
Equilibrium/ Equilibria proposes that once species appear in the fossil record,
the population will be in the state of
little or absent morphologic change. This is called a state of stasis. The
theory further proposes that the population is confined to infrequent and
geographical rapid events when significant evolutionary change happens. The parent species will the split into two
distinct species. This process if called cladogenesis.</span>
Answer and Explanation:
Nondisjunction occurs when homologous chromosomes fail to segregate during anaphase I or sister chromatids fail to segregate during anaphase II. The result is an addition or loss of one or more chromosomes. Nondisjunction is associated with disorders like Down's syndrome due to an extra chromosome, Klinefelter's syndrome or Turner's syndrome. These phenomenon where one has three members of homologous chromosome is called trisomy.
