Morphological characteristics are widely used for taxonomic classifications because they are ____

a. the most likely indicators of evolutionary relationships
b. the most likely to represent reproductive isolation among groups
c. easy to assess in living, preserved, or fossilized specimens


d. always the exact phenotypic expression of genotypes
e. indicative of genetic relatedness


ANSWER: c

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