Although hummingbirds and house flies both use wings to fly,this similarity is not based upon closely shared ancestry but rather on evolution and adaptation as a result of survival and reproduction in a given environment.The term best describing such a phenomenon is
A) homology.
B) genera sharing.
C) convergent evolution.
D) congruent evolution.
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Q2: Which statement about the relationship between phenotypic
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Q4: The term homoplasy is most applicable to
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Q8: Sister taxa
A)represent the common ancestor of taxa.
B)represent
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