NEET 2025
- Exam
- NEET
- Year
- 2025
- Subject
- Zoology
- Chapter
- Evolution
NEET 2025 · Zoology · Evolution
Sweet potato and potato represent a certain type of evolution....
Sweet potato and potato represent a certain type of evolution. Select the correct combination of terms to explain the evolution.
Options
- AAnalogy, convergent
- BHomology, divergent
- CHomology, convergent
- DAnalogy, divergent
Correct answer
A. Analogy, convergent
Step-by-step solution
Sweet potato is a root modification while potato is a stem modification but both of them have same function. Analogous structures are not anatomically similar structures though they perform similar functions.
Analogous structures are the result of convergent evolution.
- Homologous organs are anatomically similar but they do not perform similar function. Homologous organs are the result of divergent evolution.