The ecological pyramid is smaller at the top due to the lower amount of species to fit into the category (diversity is decreased, and the higher, the more suppressed the energy is in the animals/species).
Answer: C). Extraction
Explanation:
Minerals are the inorganic susbtances obtain from the under surface of the earth crust. They are collectively found in the geosphere of earth.
The mineral formation is a long geomorphic process it does not involve any biological activity. After mineral formation mineral extraction is the next step in the resource cycle.
The extraction process involves mining techniques.
Most, maybe all, bacteria have their genome DNA tethered to their cell membranes, so it is in the cytoplasm but its not really floating around. Plasmids in bacteria however are free floating. This is why it's so easy to isolate plasmids from bacteria with centrifugation after lysing.