<span>Sterilization of animals reduces the level of circulating reproductive hormones leading to increased longevity, typically due to reduce cancer mortality. The primary aim of animal sterilization is avoiding overpopulation, but this increased longevity could be an added benefit for an individual animal.</span>
Answer:
Option D, the "biological ladder"
Explanation:
The food chain is the network of organism in which all are dependent on each other for their food, energy source and survival.
The circle of life depicts the time frame starting from origin of a life form till its death and the intermediate stages.
The tree of life basically determines which organism has evolved from which other organisms.
The biological ladder represents the development of species from simple form to a much complex form.
Hence, option D is the right metaphor
D. Water is polar-convalently bonded, not by van der Waal forces.