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An example of homologous organs is
  • our arm and a dog’s fore-leg
  • our teeth and an elephant’s tusks
  • potato and runners of grass 
  • all of the above


D.

all of the aboveall of the above. Because all the pairs are similar in structure, and origin.
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In evolutionary terms, can we say which among bacteria, spiders, fish and chimpanzees have a ‘better’ body design? Why or why not?

Why are human beings who look so different from each other in terms of size, colour and looks said to belong to the same species?

In evolutionary terms, we have more in common with
  • a Chinese school-boy
  • a chimpanzee
  • a spider
  • a bacterium

A Mendelian experiment consisted of breeding tall pea plants bearing violet flowers with short pea plants bearing white flowers. The progeny all bore violet flowers, but almost half of them were short. This suggests that the genetic make-up of the tall parent can be depicted as:
(a) TTWW
(b) TTww
(c) TtWW
 (d) TtWw


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