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Camouflage patterns that resemble each other in unrelated species arise because of:
AA shared recent ancestor
BDeliberate copying behaviour
CIdentical mutation rates
DSimilar selection pressures
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D. Similar selection pressures
1. Two unrelated species can end up looking alike.
2. These similarities occur not because of common ancestry, but because of similar selection pressures.
3. In the case of camouflage, the pressure is the benefit of not being seen by predators.
4. Any lineage facing that pressure is pushed toward the same solution.
5. This is convergent evolution seen at the level of a single trait.
_Source: OpenStax Biology for AP(R) Courses (CC BY 4.0), Ch 18 'Evolution and the Origin of Species', sections 18.1-18.3_
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