Skip to content
ZoologyNEET 2025Natural selection, Hardy–Weinberg, adaptive radiation

Evolution

Sweet potato and potato represent a certain type of evolution. Select the correct combination of terms to explain the evolution.

  1. A.Analogy, convergent✓
  2. B.Homology, divergent
  3. C.Homology, convergent
  4. D.Analogy, divergent

Solution

Sweet potato (a root) and potato (a stem) look alike and store food but have different origins — analogous structures produced by convergent evolution.

Save for spaced revision (free account)

More from this chapter in past papers

From Zoology › Evolution › Natural selection, Hardy–Weinberg, adaptive radiation — lectures, notes and every past question on it.

Last revised . Found a mistake? Tell us — corrections are the fastest thing we act on.

ShareWhatsAppTelegram