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Which of these sentences explains the difference between convergent evolution and adaptive radiation?

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B ) Convergent evolution produces organisms with similar adaptations but different ancestry, whereas adaptive radiation produces organisms with different adaptations but common ancestry.

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Convergent evolution is when two completely separate organisms share a similar environment, and develop similar characteristics because of it, even through they did not both originally have this characteristic.

Parallel evolution is when a characteristic is present in a common ancestor, inherited in two or more lineages descendant from that ancestry, and continues to develop similarly in those descendant lineages.
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