the surgical removal of the lining of a portion of a clogged carotid artery leading to the brain is known as a/an:

any abiotic or biotic factor in an ecosystem that causes a population's size to slow or decrease is a limiting factor.

the fossil record provides evidence of a common ancestor to many species.

only about ten percent of the energy at one trophic level is passed on to organisms at the next trophic level. the remainder of the energy is used in life processes or lost as heat.

it is because according to the process , scientific inquiry is a process with many steps because each step occurs to the scientist and if you just skip a step there would be no steps to scientific inquiry.