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what is the genetic benefit of the process below?
a. it creates new combinations of genes on a chromosome and leads to variation.
b. it increases the likelihood that an organism will survive in a new environment.
c. it results in the conservation of parental genes to offspring.
d. there is no benefit; it is often a disastrous event.

Is there any species that went extinct in recent years due to natural causes (not caused by human interaction). if so, what caused it?

The kidney filters potentially toxic substances in the blood, and thus “clears” the blood of those substances. this clearance function is dependent upon and proportional to the diffusion gradient of the substance across filtering capillaries, i.e. if the concentration of the substance is doubled, twice as much will be cleared from each ml of blood that is filtered. suppose that the body produces a constant amount of a substance x per unit of time. the kidneys eliminate substance x at a rate directly proportional to the concentration of the substance and the volume of blood cleared each minute (c): elimination = c × [x], where [x] is the steady-state concentration of substance x. imagine an individual with an initial concentration of x equal to [x]0 who develops kidney disease. her baseline clearance c0 drops to one half of the original (½c0). what is the new steady state concentration of x? (for simplicity, assume that substance x is 100% filtered by the kidney).

Along what geographical feature are most of the oil producing regions located