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The correct answer would be - Characteristics can be lost in evolution.
Explanation:
The new evidence helps in developing a new hypothesis. In this case, new evidence proved that the Chondrichthyes diverged after the evolution of bone had started instead of before the evolution started. This process called atavism where an ancestral genetic trait reappears after having lost. This leads to loss of the traits in the evolution 
This can take place by knocking the mutation out to overriding the gene by the old gene or overriding the new trait by the old trait during the evolution period.
 
        
             
        
        
        
Answer:
c)polymerase chain reaction (PCR).
Explanation:
Because the paleontologist recovered only a bit of tissue  and it is very old, it is very likely that the DNA in the sample is very small and part of it is degraded. Anyway, the paleontologist must first amplify the DNA sample to obtain many identical copies of the specific region of the DNA they want to compare. the above is done through a polymerase chain reaction (PCR). 
 
        
             
        
        
        
In meiosis the are two divisions. The division of the original cell results in two daughter cell. Those two cells divide to produce 4 haploid cell in total.