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It was found that when the same environmental challenge was provided to the two sets of organisms who belonged to different ancestors and with different evolution patterns evolved similar phenotypic to survive better is called

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Similar habitat can result in selection of similar adaptive features in different groups of organisms but toward the same function. It is referred to as convergent evolution.

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Which one of the following options gives one correct example each of divergent evolution and convergent evolution?

	Divergent evolution	Convergent evolution
(1)	Thorn of Bougainvillea and tendril of Cucurbita	Sweet potato and potato
(2)	Potato and ginger	Radish and carrot
(3)	Sweet potato and potato	Thorn of Bougainvillea and tendril of Cucurbita
(4)	Thorns of pomegranate and spines of prickly pear	Scales of onion and spines of prickly pear