Which One of the Following Statements About the Evolution of Larval

question 56

Multiple Choice

Which one of the following statements about the evolution of larval dispersal in marine snails is false?

• A)The observation that non-dispersing snails are more sedentary may lead to greater instances of allopatric speciation.
• B)Clades of non-dispersing snails are less species rich than dispersing snails.
• C)Loss of structures in the transition from dispersing to non-dispersing may inhibit evolutionary reversal.
• D)Possession of dispersing larvae is the ancestral state in snails.
• E)Cladistics shows that there are more instances of the transition from dispersing to non-dispersing larvae than the reversE.

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