Campbell Biology in Focus
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Author: Lisa A. Urry, Michael L. Cain, Steven A. Wasserman, Peter V. Minorsky, Rebecca Orr
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Chapter 27.5, Problem 2CC
MAKE CONNECTIONS Compare and contrast how the colonization of land by plants and by vertebrates exemplifies descent with modification. (Review Concepts 19.2 and 26.1.)
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