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You are taking an art class and your instructor asks you to draw several animals, including a shark, a dolphin, and a penguin. As you draw these animals you notice that they all have a fusiform shape; in other words, they are tapered at both ends. Despite their similar shape, you are well aware that the shark is a fish, the dolphin is a mammal, and the penguin is a bird.
-You are also asked to draw animals that fly, including insects, birds, and bats. You read that fossil evidence suggests that bat wings and bird wings arose independently from forelimbs of different tetrapod ancestors. If this is the case, then a bird's wing is ________ to a bat's wing.
A) analogous
B) homologous
C) developmentally homologous
D) descended with modification
E) more closely related to flying reptiles than
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