Answer:
A. There are fossils of extinct ancestors of horseshoe crabs and the species is still alive today.
Explanation:
C and D have more to do with how it can be a fossil. It is a living fossil because its ancestors have been found in fossils, yet it continues to live today.
- Xylem contains tracheids, vessels, xylem parenchyma and xylem fibre.
- Tracheids: They are elongated, tubular dead cells with tapering end walls.
- Vessels: These are also known as trachea. They are elongated, tubular dead cells. They are joined to each other by end to end forming a continuous pipe. The cells are thick and lignified.
- Xylem parenchyma: They are also called wood parenchyma. This is the only living tissue of xylem.
- Xylem fibre: They are dead cells with thick walled fibre.
- Phloem consists of sieve tubes, companion cells, phloem parenchyma and phloem fibres.
- Sieve tubes: These are elongated, tubular living cells arranged in a row, with their perforated end walls forming a sieve. They are non-nucleated. Their protoplasm are inter-connected through sieve plates. They possess vacuoles.
- Companion cell: They are elongated, lens-shaped cells containing dense cytoplasm and prominent nuclei. These cells maintain connection with sieve cells through pits.
- Phloem parenchyma: They are living thin walled parenchyma cells.
- Phloem fibre: They are also known as bast fibre. They are elongated fibre like sclerenchymatous dead cells with thick walls containing pits and interlocked ends. Phloem fibre are the only dead cells in phloem.
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The bacteria which had mutation became resistant to the antibiotic and survived and keeps on increasing, promoting natural selection.
Explanation:
The bacteria rapidly divide, the chances of mutation in the gene increases manifold.
The strains of bacteria causing tuberculosis and staph infection got mutated at DNA level such that they became resistant to antibiotics when tested those susceptible did not survive. These mutations were not harmful to bacteria and the resultant bacteria survived.
These bacteria which survived and proliferated as the environment was in their favour.
Thus, Darwin's Theory of Natural Selection is acceptable here as it says if a mutation is occurring towards the increase in population, they will be selected ones.
The explanation regarding the advantage of reproduction that represents the graph should be described below.
Advantages of reproduction:
Here the graph represents the bacteria population that should be raised as the time passes. At the time of 1st hour, the bacteria population should be 50 per ml.
In the second hour, the population should be doubled. In the third hour it should be 200 per ml and in 3 and half hours, the population should be 300 per ml. So here we can see that the population should be doubled with every hour.
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