I believe the correct answer is upwelling. Lets say we have producers such as plankton. well upwelling currents bring dead matter from the ocean floor up to the surface, creating plankton.
If the lizard was a less desirable female/male in a time where their gender outnumbered the other and therefore not all of them get a mate.
Homologous chromosomes, is a pair of chromosome connected by a centromere. In sexual reproduction, the chromosome of the mother and the chromosome of the father pairs together.
The feature that is created by deposition of the loosely packed and mineral-rich soil is Loess.
Loess is a loosely packed soil deposition due to blown wind of sediment rocks. The geography of loess is in between soil and clay. It is finer in texture than soil but has the coarse structure than the clay. This loess contains certain clay portions in order to hold the soil particles properly.
It can be mostly seen in Great Plains of North America, northern china, and other places around the world.
Neither, humans don't have an estrous cycle, instead the females have a menstrual cycle.