You Take a Research Trip to Australia and Observe That

question 27

Multiple Choice

You take a research trip to Australia and observe that the wombat appears to be a similar looking species to a ground hog you have studied in North America.These two species have evolved in separate,but climatically similar environments,and they have developed closely corresponding adaptive features.This is a clear example of:

• A) Convergent evolution
• B) Environmental speciation
• C) Parallel evolution
• D) Allopatric speciation

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