Answer: Option E (B and D are the only examples.
Mediterranean ecosystem with hot dry summer and fire can be found on various continents across the globe. Plants in these ecosystem have evolve similar adaptations to survive these circumstances.
Echidnas are egg laying mammals that live in Australia and new Guinea. They are sometimes known as spiny anteaters since they are covered in spines and mostly eat ants and termites. As such they resemble south American anteaters and hedgehogs but are not closely related to them. Instead echidnas descended from an aquatic platypus like ancestor.
Explanation:
Divergent evolution is a process where different organisms with different anscetors evolve independently and develop similar traits due to their adaptation to similar environment.
Another example is the similarities between hummingbird and hummingbird moth, the evolved from different ancestors and yet posses similar characteristics.
By gathering information from past facts
Answer:
<em>The more the diversity in a location, the more is the diversity in organisms. </em>
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Explanation:
Every area has a specific environment which is favorable for the survival of particular species adapted to live in that environment.
If there is such diversity in North California's environment, we will find that the population of beetles will be abundant in areas which are favorable for the survival of the beetle population. It may happen that with the passage of time, the beetle population might evolve and adapt to live in other areas too. Changes in habitat makes species diversity favorable.
Mendel wants to control the pollination of his pea plants because traits were not blended but they remain separate in the subsequent generations and also it is contrary to scientific opinion during his time
<u>Explanation:</u>
- Mainly, he wants to control because they were against the scientific opinion during his time.
- Mendel takes a pea plant for his experiment because it can be easily observable.
- Pea plant has seven traits and it can be pollinated by both the ways. One is self-pollination and the other is cross-pollination.
- Mendel did not know about the genes but he speculates the factors of formation in the traits.
- Mendel produces three laws, the law of dominance, the law of segregation, the law of independent assortment.
