Structures That Have No Apparent Function but Had a Function

question 31

Multiple Choice

Structures that have no apparent function but had a function in ancestral species are

• A)the fossil record.
• B)the molecular record.
• C)homology.
• D)development.
• E)vestigial structures.

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