The photoreceptors would be your eyes, chemoreceptors skin, olfactory for nose and mechanoreceptors for obviously tongue hope this helps.
Foxes Hawks and Owls will have to rely on other sources for food and be the most directly effected. You could make the argument that all the organisms will effected as some will see increased predation, while the plants will see a reduction in herbivores eating them.
One way is that Igneous rock could erode and become sediment and deposited and slowly change into sedimentary rock, then get pushed down deep into the crust and changed by heat and pressure into metamorphic rock.
Genes and DNA of their parents i think its those two <span />