Author Question: Traits that reflect specific evolutionary lineages and can be informative of evolutionary ... (Read 302 times)

bucstennis@aim.com · **on:** Jul 10, 2018

Traits that reflect specific evolutionary lineages and can be informative of evolutionary relationships are called

a. ancestral (primitive).
b. acquired.
c. derived (modified).
d. convergent characters.
e. analogies.

Question 2

Structural similarities shared by a wide array of distantly related species that are inherited from a common ancestor, such as the number of bones in the forelimb, are termed

a. specialized.
b. ancestral (primitive).
c. adaptive radiations.
d. analogies.
e. derived (modified).