The Lungs Are Located in the ________ on Either Side

question 2

Multiple Choice

The lungs are located in the ________ on either side of the heart.

• A) plural cavities
• B) pelvic cavity
• C) abdominal cavity
• D) thoracic cavity

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Definitions:

Ancestral Traits

Characteristics that appeared in common ancestors and are passed down to subsequent generations.

Shared

A term referring to something that is used or belongs to more than one person or entity.

Cladistic Analysis

A method of analyzing the evolutionary relationships between groups of organisms by classifying them based on common ancestry.

Outgroup

In cladistics, a taxon that represents an approximation of the ancestral condition; the outgroup is related to the ingroup (the members of the group under study) but separated from the ingroup lineage before they diversified.