A Swim Bladder Is a Gas-Filled Sac That Helps Fish

question 7

Multiple Choice

A swim bladder is a gas-filled sac that helps fish maintain buoyancy. The evolution of the swim bladder from the air-breathing organ (a simple lung) of an ancestral fish is an example of

• A) an evolutionary trend.
• B) exaptation.
• C) changes in Hox gene expression.
• D) paedomorphosis.
• E) adaptive radiation.

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