Answer:
Diamond-
Physical identification characters:
Color- White or Colorless
Lusture - admantine
Streak - Colorkess
Habit - Hour glass structure
Hardness - 10
Cleavage- octaheadral
Composition- pure carbon
Specific gravity-3.5
Dolomite (CaMg(CO3)2
Color - Colorless or white
Hardness is between 3-4
Reacts with any acid
Gneiss
Light and dark strip or banding present alternatively
biotite , pyroxene have Mafic mineral shows dark banding
Quartz, Feldspar have Felsic mineral for light banding
High grade metmorphic rock which is formed due to regional metamorphism of lower grade rock
Chalk(CaCO3)
Color-White
Very fragile
Hardness-1
With acid gives effervescence.
We reject the options a) and b) since the question says that the data supports "equally" both cases - so we have no basis for making a choice either way.
Further, in science the decisions are reached based on facts, not voting, so we also reject the answer D .
We are left with the answer C and this is also the best practice in science - when unsure, leave it as a hypothesis.
A. Ancestors of whales may once have been able to walk.
A) results in haploid cells