The Most Critical Barriers for Animals in Making the Transition

question 97

Multiple Choice

The most critical barriers for animals in making the transition from sea to land were the development of ways to deal with what?

• A) desiccation
• B) reproduction
• C) the effects of gravity
• D) the extraction of oxygen from the atmosphere
• E) all of these

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