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Heredity is the process of passing of traits from one generation to the next generation. Now, this process would not lead to any interesting results (and in turn, the astonishing variety of life on earth), if this process was 100% accurate or faithful. So, even though traits are transferred from parents to their off-springs, the traits are usually marginally altered.
This gives rise to off-springs who are like their parents but with very minor changes. These changes could either be a) beneficial b) harmful (deleterious) or c) neutral.
Harmful changes cause the organism to perish before it can pass on these changes to the next generation. Sometimes a trait that existed in the earlier might become deleterious due to a change in the environment and thus, undergo the process of elimination from the population.
Beneficial changes help the organism to adapt better to its surroundings and live longer and have more off-springs such that these changes are spread to more and more organisms in the population and are eventually get fixed.
A series of such changes in a subsection of a population eventually lead to a new species which is nothing like the older generation. This process of “fixing” or beneficial changes and removal of deleterious traits from a population is called evolution.
Interestingly, the changes that seem the most inconsequential, the neutral changes, are responsible for the bulk of evolution. Neutral changes along with geographical isolation lead to a process called genetic drift, which is considered by many to be the strongest driving force of evolution.
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The correct answer is - A. 780 GtC.
If the inputs and outputs of carbon are as shown on the image, than the carbon levels in the atmosphere will reduce by 20 GtC in a ten year time, thus making the atmosphere have 780 GtC instead of the initial 800 GtC.
On the image we can see that the carbon that gets up into the atmosphere is 69 GtC annually, while the carbon that returns on the Earth is 71 GtC annually. That means a drop of 2 GtC annually in the carbon levels in the atmosphere.
Such a process will reduce the Greenhouse effect, and eventually it will lead to an ice age because the atmosphere will not be able to retain as much heat as previously, thus the Earth will cool off.
