Which adaptation is the likely result of convergent evolution?

Biology

1 answer:

bezimeni [28]3 years ago

5 0

A result of convergent evolution are the webbed feet of ducks and frogs.

Explanation:

The evolution of the animals, or rather the development of adaptive features, works in very interesting manner. It is very common in nature that animals that are closely related do not share similar characteristics, or the opposite, animals that are not closely related but share similar characteristics. The later case, is referred to as convergent evolution, where totally different animals have developed the same or very similar characteristics in order to be better suited for their environment.

In this case we have the ducks and frogs, and the webbed feet as shared adaptations, or feature. The ducks are birds, while the frogs are amphibians, and their last common ancestor has lived hundreds of millions of years ago. Despite that, both animals have developed webbed feet, and the reason for this has been that both animals have faced the same challenge, swimming and diving, and the webbed feet help them to be much faster and more agile in the water.

Other examples of convergent evolution (in the present and in the past) are:

Hyena - Tasmanian devil
Sandy cat - Fenec fox
Smilodon - Thylacosmilus
Bats - Birds

Learn more about the categories of adaptations brainly.com/question/2396978

#learnwithBrainly

You might be interested in

Answer the Question below with a short sentence.

irina1246 [14]

Answer:

(1) Inhales (breathes in) Oxygen - good for the body - gives it to the Circulatory System to be transported throughout the body through the blood. (1) Digestive System gets nutrients (good) from food and hands it over to the blood and Circulatory System then carries those nutrients where they need to go

i hope this helps<3 :)

7 0

2 years ago

Detached earlobes are dominant. If a mother has the genotype Ee and a father has the genotype EE. What is the chance that their

Alona [7]

You must make a Punnet square.

E E
E EE EE

e Ee Ee
(I can't make it, but this is what you fill in)

As you can see, there's two EE and two Ee. Each still has at least one dominant E, so all are dominant. Your answer is a 100% chance they'll have detached earlobes.

3 0

3 years ago

collagen is a protein found in connective tissue in animals and lysozyme is a protein that breaks down bacterial cell walls. Aft

Stells [14]

<h2>The Protein Structure</h2>

Explanation:

Protein structure is the three dimensional game plan of particles in an amino corrosive chain atom.
Proteins are polymers explicitly polypeptides framed from groupings of amino acids, the monomers of the polymer.By show, a chain under 30 amino acids is regularly distinguished as a peptide, rather than of a protein.
All proteins have primary, auxiliary and tertiary structures yet quaternary structures possibly emerge when a protein is comprised of at least two polypeptide chains.
The collapsing of proteins is additionally determined and fortified by the arrangement of numerous bonds between various pieces of the chain.
Connective tissues for the most part have barely any cells and extensive extracellular filaments including collagen and elastin.
Collagen is the absolute most abundant protein in the creature body and establishes roughly 25–35% of the entire body content.

6 0

2 years ago

If we have a plate that has 2500 colonies on it, can we use this plate to calculate CFU's

AleksAgata [21]

No, the solution with bacteria in it needs to be diluted in order to be in the range of 30 – 300.

A colony-forming unit –CFU is used to estimate the number of viable (ability to divide by binary fission) microbes in a sample.

A sample of microbes is diluted and spread on a plate. Then, the number of colonies is counted, assuming that each colony have grown from a single colony-forming unit, or CFU.

Plates with more than 300 colonies are difficult to count while those with less than 30 colonies give statistically unreliable numbers of colonies to count.

6 0

2 years ago

PLZ HURRY IT'S URGENT!

Anna71 [15]

Answer:

C. Fe2O3 + 2Al → 2Fe + Al2O3

7 0

3 years ago