The spread of Catholicism throughout central and South America in the sixteenth century was most directly the result of A. The growth of the global Spanish silver trade

B. European merchants acquiring higher social status

C. The creation of extraction plantation economies

D. Competition with Protestants for global influence

Some organisms have a large geographic range. for example, the norway rat lives on every continent except antarctica. a population of norway rats is the number of rats in one particular area. do you think it’s scientifically possible for a population of norway rats in north america to carry different genetic mutations than a population of norway rats in africa? do you think it’s possible that they carry some of the same mutations? what types of information can scientists learn by studying the genomes of these two populations of rats?