The process by which organisms with different evolutionary history evolve similar phenotypic adaptation in response to a common environmental challenge,…

The process by which organisms with different evolutionary history evolve similar phenotypic adaptation in response to a common environmental challenge, is called:
A Adaptive radiation
B Natural selection
C Convergent evolution
D Non-random evolution

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When unrelated organisms develop similar adaptations in response to the same environmental challenge, it is called convergent evolution.

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