The Accompanying Figure Shows the Results of Comparative Analyses of Two

question 19

Multiple Choice

The accompanying figure shows the results of comparative analyses of two clades: the horseshoe crabs,and the king crabs and hermit crabs.What can you conclude from these diagram?

• A) Horseshoe crabs have been on the Earth for an unusually long time.
• B) King crabs appeared in the fossil record before horseshoe crabs did.
• C) Hermit crabs are much older than their fossil record reveals.
• D) Horseshoe crabs are as genetically divergent as king and hermit crabs, despite being far less morphologically diverse.
• E) Horseshoe crabs have not been subjected to significant stabilizing selection.

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