Question 11

(Multiple Choice)

You are at a museum and observe that the wing of a preserved bat resembles the wing of nearby preserved bird.You hypothesize that


A) The structures are similar superficially in form and are therefore analogous because they did not share a recent common ancestor
B) The structures are similar superficially in form, the wings are homologous structures
C) The structures are homologous and are therefore derived from an equivalent structure in a shared common ancestor
D) The structures are analogous and are therefore derived from an equivalent structure in a shared common ancestor

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