Biology 107

 

 

35. When unrelated organisms resemble each other from similar environments, this is an example of what kind of evolution?

Convergent evolution as in these species of Mammals, Placental and Marsupial Mammals.

In the plants below, cactus on the left resembles an African species of plant a euphorbia on the right, they are not related.

Cane Cactus Euphorbia
Cactus from U. S. Desert
Euphorbia from African Desert