Carbohydrates are composed of monomers or repeating subunits of simple sugars or monosaccharides, such as glucose, galactose etc.
The correct answer is: a. A field dominated by annual herbaceous plants.
This is because annual herbaceous plants (plants that have no persistent woody stem) die completely at the end of the growing season or after they have flowered and fruited. They will then grow again from seed.
Growth and change
Ability to reproduce
Maintain homeostasis
Responsiveness to the environment
It would be nice to see the 4 stages titled to have a clue to what they could be. You see, chemical evolution is a myth, like Darwin's "warm little ponds." There are no naturalistic processes that have any power to accomplish the complex, diverse, extensive and highly non-entropic assembly of biochemical elements, molecules and assemblies into even the simplest life.
There is no primordial soup, panspermia is a distraction, none of the intractable issues for the origin of life.
Logically, the first step is collection of all elements, second, first level assembly of amino acids lipid membranes, proteins, third, higher level combination of biochemical molecules and generation of nucleotide coded DNA containing the processing code for generation and production of RNA, enzymes ribozymes and all other cellular functions, then fourth, the execution of all metabolism, nutrient collection, waste elimination and reproduction consistent with a living organism. Admittedly speculative since chemical evolution is a myth.