Melanin provides pigmentation to the skin and it also provides UV ray protection (which is its role in the epidermis).
Answer:
Option-C
Explanation:
Scientists found a fossil of a fish with four limbs or legs. The fossil was estimated to be around 375 million years old.
The fossil showed the fins and scales of a fish but they also possess the bones of proto-wrist, shoulders and the elbow.
The presence of these bones can be a clue that the fish evolved the limbs to walk on the land and will later evolve into animals belonging to amphibians, reptiles and mammals. Therefore, the Tiktaalik is considered the missing link of how life evolved from water to land.
Thus, Option-C is correct.
Answer:
Option A, Key stone
Explanation:
A keystone species plays a major role in an ecosystem as it is the species whose presence effects all other species in the ecosystem .In general a keystone species is always a dominant predator that feed on prey population. If it is removed, the prey population will explode and the population diversity will reduce. For example - bison, prairie dog etc.
Hence, option A is correct
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The Paleozoic Era ended with the largest extinction event in the history of Earth, the Permian–Triassic extinction event. The effects of this catastrophe were so devastating that it took life on land 30 million years into the Mesozoic Era to recover
