Hey could you send the picture of what it is, I might could help.
Clues such as fossils such as bones, footprints, tar, etc, preserved underground helped inform scientists. You can also count how old a tree is when you cut it open and there are some alive for thousands of years so that is a possible way.
Nucleic acids are the building blocks of proteins so a b is rna and C is genes
I am pretty sure the answer is increase and increase. Because enzymes are affected by changes in pH. The most favorable pH value - the point where the enzyme is most active - is known as the optimum pH. Extremely high or low pH values generally result in complete loss of activity for most enzymes.
