C: lack of water during long periods..
Answer:
B. Chromosomes
Explanation:
This process is required to produce egg and sperm cells.
The correct answer is: d) begins later in life
Eggs or female reproductive cells are formed well before birth in a huge number (primordial oocytes). But, the number of oocyte decreases after birth constantly (there are 2 million oocytes at birth and 40,000 of them in puberty). At menopause, no egg cells are left.
On the other hand, the first sperms are formed only from puberty, but the production of those cells never stops.
Quaternary or fourth order consumers are those who occupy the fourth position in the trophic level or food chain, that is, they are species or organisms that feed on tertiary consumers