If Two Modern Organisms Are Distantly Related in an Evolutionary

question 25

Multiple Choice

If two modern organisms are distantly related in an evolutionary sense,then one should expect that

• A)they live in very different habitats.
• B)they should share fewer homologous structures than two more closely related organisms.
• C)their chromosomes should be very similar.
• D)they shared a common ancestor relatively recently.

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