Q. An evolutionary process, giving rise to new species adapting to new habitat and ways of life is called

A) Adaptive radiation
B) Adaptation
C) Convergent evolution
D) Microevolution
Explanation

When a group of organisms shares a homologous structure, which is specialized to perform a varity of different functions, it shows adaptive radiation, which represents evolution of new forms in several directions from the common ancestral type (divergence).

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