One morphological feature of modern cetaceans is a vestigial pelvic girdle. If it is determined that the cetacean lineage diverged from the artiodactyls' lineage after the divergence of pigs and other artiodactyla

, then the vestigial pelvic girdle of cetaceans should be considered a shared _____.
A) ancestral character of the cetartiodactyls
B) derived character of the cetartiodactyls
C) ancestral character of the cetaceans
D) derived character of the cetaceans


Answer: D

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