Which sentence in this excerpt from Thomas Paine's "The Crisis, No. 1" best summarizes Thomas Paine's method of persuasion? A. He provides empirical evidence to show that perseverance will lead to success in a prolonged war. B. He provides empirical evidence to show that the future will be bleak if the people do not act as he suggests. C. He appeals to his readers' emotions by imagining the consequences of not acting as he suggests. D. He appeals to his readers' emotions by portraying the benefits of engaging in a prolonged war.

Some organisms have a large geographic range. for example, the norway rat lives on every continent except antarctica. a population of norway rats is the number of rats in one particular area. do you think it’s scientifically possible for a population of norway rats in north america to carry different genetic mutations than a population of norway rats in africa? do you think it’s possible that they carry some of the same mutations? what types of information can scientists learn by studying the genomes of these two populations of rats?