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Octopuses, mammals, and some jellyfish have eyes that contain a lens for focusing light. Eyes with a lens were not present in the common ancestor of these animals. Is an eye with a lens a synapomorphy or a homoplasy?

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Synapomorphy !!

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An Eye with an lens is specified as a Synapomorphy .

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