What is the evolutionary process that produces analogous structures called?
a. speciation
b. homology
c. homoplasy
d. founder effect
e. evolutionary systematics
c
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A. Eastern Europe. B. Southeast Asia. C. The western United States. D. Mexico.
Structural similarities between species that are based on common function and not on common evolutionary descent are called
a. acquired. b. generalized. c. non-adaptive. d. analogies. e. homologies.
One of the most surprising aspects of the recent discovery of H. floresiensis, a species of tiny people who lived, gathered, and hunted on the Indonesian island of Flores from about 95,000 B.P. until at least 13,000 B.P., is the specimens' very large skulls; yet they lacked behaviors associated with anatomically modern humans.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
The ultimate source of all biological variation is:
A. mutation B. natural selection C. genetic drift D. nonrandom mating