Summarize E. O. Wilson’s quote on biodiversity in your own words "the one process ongoing that will take millions of years to correct in the loss of genetic and species diversity for the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly that our descendants are least likely to forgive us"

it provides an alternative energy pathway for the reaction to proceed.

a catalyst is a substance that speeds up the rate of a chemical reaction but is not consumed during the course of the reaction.

catalysts increase the rate of reaction without being used up. they do this by lowering the activation energy needed. with a catalyst, more collisions result in a reaction, so the rate of reaction increases. different reactions need different catalysts.

a catalyst works by providing an alternative reaction pathway to the reaction product. the rate of the reaction is increased as this alternative route has a lower activation energy than the reaction route not mediated by the catalyst.

answer: i feel like it would be 3

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