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### Step-by-Step Text Solution 1. **Understanding Adaptive Radiation**: - Adaptive radiation refers to the process where organisms diversify rapidly from an ancestral species into a wide variety of forms to adapt to different environments. This results in the development of different functional structures from a common ancestor. 2. **Identifying Homologous Organs**: - In adaptive radiation, we observe homologous organs, which are structures that have a common origin but have evolved to perform different functions. This indicates that these organisms have diverged from a common ancestor. ...
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  2. The early atmosphere was

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  3. Miller performed experiment to prove molecular evolution of life. Whic...

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  4. All of the following theories were given for the origin of life, excep...

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  5. Life originated in

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  6. Which of the following was used as an energy source by Miller in his e...

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  7. The first non-cellular form of life could have originated about years...

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  8. At what level of grouping of organisms does evolution occur?

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  9. If two organisms are more closely related then which of the following ...

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  10. According to Darwin, what is the driving force of evolution?

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  11. What was the term given by Darwin for the differences in characteristi...

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  12. What is phylogeny?

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  13. What do you understand by the principle of superposition?

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  14. What evidence supports the hypothesis that whales evolved from land dw...

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  15. The statement given below is true/false if false, why? "The match be...

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  16. Large leg muscles built up in an individual, is an example of acquired...

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  17. Fossils are dated by

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  18. Analogous structures are

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  19. In the post-industrialization period in England

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  20. The divergent evolution can be seen in

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  21. Marsupials occur in

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