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The greatest evolutionary change enablin...

The greatest evolutionary change enabling the land vertebrates to be completely free from water , was the development of

A

Four legs

B

Lungs

C

Shelled eggs and internal fertilization

D

Four chambered heart

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C

The aquatic to terrestrial transition of vertebrate organism occurred in the late Devonian era. There is an evidence of shelled organism and internal fertilisation which support terrestrial life.
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