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Chapter 43, Problem 4A
The ability of some insects, birds, and lizards to see ultraviolet light is
a. a result of a common diet eaten by those species.
b. an example of convergent evolution in cone cell sensitivity.
c. the ancestral state inherited from
d. an adaptation for nocturnal activity.
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