The extinct animal is most similar to the bottom left due to the spinal similarities. The spine does not demonstrate a sigmoidal curve like the bottom right does. Answer would be bottom left.
Answer: Colonial organisms are the result of many identical individuals joining together to form a colony. These cells are partly dependent on each other to start with. But, later evolutionary events resulted in the obligatory relationships among them resulted in multicellularity.
Answer:
disruptive selection
Explanation:
Disruptive selection may be defined as a type of a natural selection which selects against some average individual in a given population. These makeup of such a type of the population shows the phenotypes of both the extremes of characteristics but they have very few individuals in the middle.
Disruptive selection is also known as diversifying selection.
In the given context, the beaks of an African seedcracker finches may be small or may be large but they are not of the intermediate size. Such a selection is known as disruptive selection in species.