LIFE SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Examples of convergent evolution include the relationship between bat and insect wings, shark and dolphin bodies, and vertebrate and cephalopod eyes. Analogous structures arise from convergent evolution, but homologous structures do not.

Detailed explanation-2: -Despite their morphological similarities, the bats in these families are not closely related to one another, and their morphology and their echolocation behaviour show remarkable examples of convergent evolution.

Detailed explanation-3: -All bats and birds “converged” on the ability of flight in response to environmental stimuli and biological goals. Rhe arm bones in both birds and bats are structurally the same and considered homologous. The wing shape, however, is what is convergent.

Detailed explanation-4: -A widespread example of convergent evolution is the evolution of wings and powered flight in birds, bats and (now extinct) pterosaurs, each of which belong to a different class of organism and therefore have very distant common ancestors.

Detailed explanation-5: -Echolocation. Bats and dolphins are able to echolocate. Credit: Wikimedia commons. Eye see you. Credit: Wikimedia commons. Chewing the cud. Credit: Wikimedia commons. Pretty deadly. Credit: Wikimedia commons. Hidden in plain sight. Credit: Wikimedia commons. 20-Aug-2021