Australia and Eurasia Each Have a Mouse-Like Mammal, One a Marsupial

question 1

Multiple Choice

Australia and Eurasia each have a mouse-like mammal, one a marsupial, the other a placental. These distantly related species are an example of ____.

• A) disjunct dispersal
• B) disjunct vicariance
• C) adaptive radiation
• D) convergent evolution
• E) distant migration

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