A recent biology graduate was studying the evolution of a particular organism when she realized that she did not have enough data to determine the particular order of recent evolutionary events that formed her species. Given this information, how would you suggest she interpret her findings?

a. There must have been an increase in chromosome number in one of the species in her evolutionary tree.
b. Perhaps there were several extinctions that confuse the order.
c. It seems that her findings are the result of the process of adaptive radiation.
d. A landscape change such as rising sea levels interrupted the evolutionary events occurring.
e. The data indicate sympatric isolation.


Ans: c. It seems that her findings are the result of the process of adaptive radiation.

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