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Q: Acquisition of the same or similar characteristics in distantly related lines of descent?
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Distantly related species that share similar characteristics?

Chimpanzees


What does distantly related mean?

The term distantly related describes life forms that share common ancestors. Distantly related organisms share trace amounts of common DNA.


Why the animal kingdom is distantly related to other kingdoms?

The animal kingdom is distantly related to other kingdoms because animals are unique in their development from a common ancestor that diverged evolutionarily from other organisms. This evolutionary divergence led animals to develop distinct characteristics, such as multicellularity, heterotrophy, and specialized tissues/organs, that differentiate them from other kingdoms like plants, fungi, and protists.


Are Pete and Claudia Winkleman related?

If they are related, they are distantly related.


Dolphins peguins and sharks are distantly-related species that share similar characteristics which help them live in water this is an example of?

It's called convergent evolution


Does Charles Darwin's work have any implication for everyday life?

Yes of course. We now know our origins. All life is derived from its common ancestor LUCA and all life is related by common descent. We are closely related to chimpanzees and more distantly related to chipmunks and more distantly related still to cetaceans and curassows and crustaceans and cycads. The implication is that we now know something. And that knowledge is improving every day.


Is a wildebeest related to horses and zebras?

distantly related so yes.


Are Latin and Greek related?

Yes, although distantly.


Is a alligatgor a dinosaur?

no. it is distantly related to dinosaurs idiot


How did Dwight D. Eisenhower become distantly related?

Dwight D. Eisenhower became distantly related to Richard Nixon because his grandson married Nixon's daughter.


What is a twiggley boo?

an animal that is distantly related to Winnie the poo


Are humans related to flies?

probably not but maybe very distantly