Explain why visible structures, such as fins, beaks, and tails, look so different on different organisms.

Morphological changes to function appendages arise because of different requirements this was termed by Darwin as adaptive radiation. For example darwins finches - each birds beak was slightly different in shape - this allowed them to exploit a different food source, thereby reducing intra specific competition. As for fins, these vary depending on the swimming requirements of the organism; balance, agility or speed may be selected for.

Answered by Anonymous | 2024-06-10

Different organisms have varied visible structures such as fins, beaks, and tails because of adaptation to their environment, which includes divergent evolution and convergent evolution, resulting in diverse yet functionally similar structures like analogous or vestigial features. ;

Answered by marunkumar626 | 2024-06-19

Different visible structures in organisms result from adaptation, divergent evolution, and convergent evolution, influenced by their environments. Adaptations lead to specialized traits, whereas similar traits can arise independently in unrelated species due to comparable challenges. Vestigial structures show remnants of past adaptations that are no longer functional in some species.
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Answered by marunkumar626 | 2024-10-30