Overall,how Do the Effects of the Major Mass Extinctions Compare

Multiple Choice

Overall,how do the effects of the major mass extinctions compare?

A) Large terrestrial animals were always decimated while aquatic species survived
B) Species that required light were always decimated because all extinctions were due to asteroid bombardment resulting in blackened sky
C) Species appear to genetically "wear out" and mass extinctions "re-set" the evolutionary mechanisms
D) Not all cataclysmic events were the same and organismal groups and phenotypes were different in each extinction;however lineages favored by effect macroevolution and species selection were more vulnerable
E) There has not been any detected pattern to extinctions and they are probably random