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Describe convergent evolution with an example each from animals and plants.

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Convergent evolution refers to the evolutionary process of selection of similar adaptive features in different groups of organisms in a similar habitat towards the same function.

  • It is the similar habilat that has resulted in selection of similar structures.
  • Analogous structures that are not anatomically similar but perform the same functions result from convergent evolution.

Examples: Wings of butterfly and wings of birds.



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