Logically, Which of These Should Cast the Most Doubt on the Relationships

question 2

Multiple Choice

Logically, which of these should cast the most doubt on the relationships depicted by an evolutionary tree?

• A) None of the organisms depicted by the tree ate the same foods.
• B) Some of the organisms depicted by the tree had lived in different habitats.
• C) The skeletal remains of the organisms depicted by the tree were incomplete (in other words, some bones were missing).
• D) Transitional fossils had not been found.
• E) Relationships between DNA sequences among the species did not match relationships between skeletal patterns.

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