Characteristics That Have Arisen in Organisms as a Result of Common

question 59

Multiple Choice

Characteristics that have arisen in organisms as a result of common evolutionary descent are said to be ________ characteristics.

• A)homologous
• B)homoplastic
• C)adaptive
• D)derived
• E)ancestral

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Definitions:

Volume Increases

A physical change where the amount of space that a substance or object occupies becomes larger.

Temperature

A measure of the thermal energy of a substance, indicative of how hot or cold the substance is.

Kinetic-Molecular Theory

A theory that explains the properties of gases in terms of the motion of very small particles, considering their collisions as perfectly elastic.

Density

Density is the mass per unit volume of a substance or object, often measured in grams per cubic centimeter or kilograms per cubic meter.