The molecular clock is a scientific technique which presents a means of estimating evolutionary rates and timescales using genetic data. It uses mutation rate of biomolecules when two or more life forms diverged to estimate the time. Answer is B.
The natural selection process applies majorly inside back species wether than between species.
Death by a predator is more natural because it follows the rules of the food chain and keeps nature in balance, keeping the environment healthy. However, whenever an animal dies of starvation, it means the food chain is out of balance since the animal wasn't in an environment where it could find something to feed off of.
2. sodium ion that has lost an electron
I believe some are mushrooms