You have come across an old dataset in your research lab. the researcher recorded temperature, precipitation, and plant species over a time span of five years, but apparently forgot to record the location! upon further examination, you find that the average temperature in the mystery location is 10°c, the average precipitation is 25cm, and plant matter is sparse, made up mostly of short, scrubby species. from what biome was the dataset most likely recorded?

The upper forelimbs of humans and bats have fairly similar skeletal structures, whereas the correspondingbones in whales have very different shapes and proportions. however, genetic data suggest that all three kindsof organisms diverged from a common ancestor at about the same time. which of the following is the mostlikely explanation for these data? a) humans and bats evolved by natural selection, and whales evolved by lamarckian mechanisms. b) forelimb evolution was adaptive in people and bats, but not in whales. c) natural selection in an aquatic environment resulted in significant changes to whale forelimb anatomy. d) genes mutate faster in whales than in humans or bats. e) whales are not properly classified as mammals.