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Evolution

Question
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Which one of the following in birds indicates their reptilian ancestry?

  • Scales on their hindlimbs

  • Four-chambered heart

  • Two special chambers crop and gizzards in their digestive tract 

  • Egg with a calcareous shell

Solution

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Egg with a calcareous shell

The birds have evolved from reptiles. Both birds and reptiles lay eggs which are large and telo lecithal with thick hard calcareous shell le.cleiodic eggs.