Genetic variation contributes to the process of evolution by? A- Preventing extinction by allowing organisms a variety of options they can choose to inherit.

B- Preventing animals from being able to adapt to changes in their environment based on the characteristics they acquire.

C- Ensuring that a species has a higher chance of survival and reproduction by giving a species a variety of traits to successfully pass down to offspring.

D- Ensuring that a species is as homogenous as possible with little differences from one organism to another.

this age may represent the age of the earth's accretion, of core formation, or of the material from which the earth formed. this dating is based on evidence from radiometric age-dating of meteorite material and is consistent with the radiometric ages of the oldest-known terrestrial and lunar samples.

igneous rocks which formed by the crystallization of magma at the surface of the earth called extrusive rocks. they are characterized by fine-grained textures because the rapid cooling at or near the surface did not provide enough time for large crystals to grow.