Imagine That You Are an Explorer Who Has Discovered an Isolated

question 30

Multiple Choice

Imagine that you are an explorer who has discovered an isolated land mass in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. You find a predator that resembles a North American wolf except that it lays eggs. You name it the "mid-ocean wolf." The physical similarity between the mid-ocean wolf and the North American wolf is most likely due to which of the following factors?

• A) similarities in prey species
• B) natural selection that favors the evolution of homologous structures
• C) inheritance of the characteristics from a recent common ancestor
• D) natural selection that favors similar traits for organisms with similar ecological roles

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