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explain the importance of connecting link with an example (refer to Chapter _heredity Ann evolution)

Answer 1

What is the difference between missing link and connecting link in terms of evolution?

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Tariq Mir

Updated Oct 14, 2016

connecting link is an organism having characteristics of two different group of organisms e.g., duck billed platypus ( scientific name Ornithorhynchus anatinus) is a connecting link between reptiles and mammals i.e, it has mammary glands to feed its young ones like other mammals e.g human being , cow ,buffalo etc., and it lays hard shelled egg with large amount of yolk like reptiles , so duck billed platypus is a connecting link between two evolutionary groups viz., reptiles and mammals .

other examples :- protopterus (Lung fish) is a connecting link between fishes and amphibians.

Chimera ( Rabbit fish) connecting link cartilaginous fishes and bony fishes.
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Answer 2

The animals having intermediate characters between two groups of animals, i.e. one primitive and other advanced as called as connecting links.
Examples:
Archaeopteryx → connecting link between reptiles and birds.
Duck billed Platypus → connecting link between reptiles and mammals.


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