Estimates of current rates of extinction:_____________
A) indicate that we have reached a state of stable equilibrium in which speciation and
extinction rates are approximately equal.
B) suggest that one-half of all animal and plant species may be gone by the year 2100.
C) indicate that rates may be greater than the mass extinctions at the close of the Cretaceous period.
D) indicate that only 1% of all of the species that have ever lived on Earth are still alive.
E) suggest that rates of extinction have decreased globally.

Respuesta :

It is to be noted that the current rates of extinction as relates to certain animals and plants species show the rates to be higher than the mass extinctions at the end of the Cretaceous Period.

What is the rate of extinction?

Rates of extinction simply refer to how quickly species are becoming non-existent.

The rates are said to be on the average of 100 E/MSY. In 2020 for instance about 15 species (according to IUC) were declared extinct.

E/MSY is Extinctions per Million Species-Years. The correct answer, thus, is C.

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