c. Light independent reactions
Answer:
Children younger than 5, but especially children younger than 2 years old. Adults 65 years of age and older. Pregnant women (and women up to two weeks postpartum)
Explanation:
The natural rate of extinction as assumed by science is about 5 species per year. Currently scientists estimate we are losing species at 1000-10000 times that rate, with multiple species disappearing every day. A note on this idea is that the average extinction rate gives an unrealistic depiction of nature when we consider the catastrophic extinction events that ended the dinosaurs and shaped the ice age.
Fungus uses its hyphae to obtain nutrients.