9. Tertiary consumers eat ...
o A. primary producers
o B. primary consumers
O C. secondary consumers
o D. quaternary consumers

C. secondary consumers

Explanation:

Primary Consumers eat the producer. Secondary consumers eat primary consumers and tertiary consumers eat secondary consumers. It goes down the line. producer -> primary -> secondary -> tertiary -> Quaternary

genetic variation can be caused by mutation (which can create entirely new alleles in a population), random mating, random fertilization, and recombination between homologous chromosomes during meiosis (which reshuffles alleles within an organism's offspring).

the correct answer to this question is #5