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Why are the wings of a butterfly and of a bat called analogous?

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Wings of a butterfly and of a bat are used for flying in the air , but they are very different in structure. The superficial similarly in them is due to adaptation to flying. Both have evolved from separate ancestral populations as a means of more efficient mode of locomotion
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