The Euphorbia of desert parts of Africa and India are succulent and have thorns but are superficially very similar to the unrelated cacti native to the deserts of the Americas. This pair of plant groups represents an example of ________

A) apostatic selection B) convergent evolution
C) homology D) divergent evolution


Answer: B

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