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In the passage, the comparison of the tailed frog and its nearest relative in New Zealand suggests that:


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Okay Aspiring shmoop er's got another syriza ten here Big

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fat set of paragraphs for you courtesy of the national

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park service website about glacier national park The question number

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one here we're going to look at first in the

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passage The comparison of the tailed frog and its nearest

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relative in new zealand suggests that what Okay so let's

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think about this If the tailed frog and it's cousin

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from you know down under are related they must share

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some dna Well how else would scientist know that their

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long lost cousins So it's got to be the tailed

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frog and its relative are biologically similar in some way

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right The text doesn't specifically say or hint that the

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tailed frogging glacier park has evolved even mohr and developed

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different adept cations than its new zealand kinfolk That answer

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choice is suggesting that tail fried has leveled up in

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a way unlike the new zealand frogs and this is

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not stated in the taxi can't use it This comparison

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also doesn't prove that the field frog is unique in

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the world The tailed frog may be unique for its

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region but the new zealand relatives show that well it

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isn't alone in the world Finally we also can't conclude

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the two species are evolving the same rate There's no

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information in sports anyway so given ideas while the answer 00:01:21.515 --> [endTime] is c and uh that's all we're saying

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