BIOLOGY
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ISBN: 9781260169614
Author: Raven
Publisher: RENT MCG
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Chapter 34, Problem 1A
The reason that birds and crocodilians both build nests might be because they
a. are both warm-blooded.
b. both eat fish.
c. both inherited the trait from a common ancestor.
d. both are ectothermic.
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