Biology: The Unity and Diversity of Life (MindTap Course List)
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Author: Cecie Starr, Ralph Taggart, Christine Evers, Lisa Starr
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 47, Problem 14SQ
Unrelated species in geographically separated parts of a biome may resemble one another as a result of ______.
- a. morphologicaI divergence
- b. morphological convergence
- c.
resource partitioning - d. coevolution
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Biology: The Unity and Diversity of Life (MindTap Course List)
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