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Question
Write the answers to the questions by observing the figure below.
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- Write the name of the animal ‘(a)’ in the figure.
- Write the name of the animal ‘(b)’ in the figure.
- Write the name of the animal ‘(c)’ in the figure.
- Which evolutionary evidence is illustrated by this figure?
- Write the definition of that evidence for evolution.
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Solution
- ‘(a)’ - Duck billed platypus
- ‘(b)’ - Lungfish
- ‘(c)’ - Peripatus
- The evolutionary evidence illustrated in the given figure is connecting links.
- Definition: Connecting links are some plants or animals that show morphological characters by which they can be related to two different groups of organisms.
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