The narrower and more tubular shape of Delphinium nudicaule flowers, which mature at an earlier stage of

development than Delphinium decorum flowers, is the product of ____.



a. allometric growth
b. exaptation
c. paedomorphosis
d. disjunct vicariance


e. continuous vicariance


ANSWER: c

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