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.


D

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a. True b. False

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A. Parapithecus B. Aegyptopithecus C. Aeolopithecus D. Oligopithecus

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A. sedentism. B. domestication. C. mutation. D. adaptation.

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