Structural similarities shared by a wide array of distantly related species that are inherited from a common ancestor, such as the number of bones in the forelimb, are termed
a. specialized.
b. ancestral (primitive).
c. adaptive radiations.
d. analogies.
e. derived (modified).
b
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