Our Understanding of Many of the Evolutionary Relationships Among Animals

question 19

Multiple Choice

Our understanding of many of the evolutionary relationships among animals changed after those phylogenies were based on morphological and molecular data (as opposed to only using morphological data) .What do these changes indicate?

• A) molecular and morphological studies rarely agree
• B) molecular studies add additional information to morphological studies and improve our understanding of evolutionary history
• C) molecular studies are less reliable than morphological studies
• D) molecular studies are extremely time consuming and expensive and really don't add additional information to our understanding of evolutionary history

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