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Which of these statements correctly describes the phylogenetic relationship among birds, mammals, and reptiles? Select one: Birds share the closest common ancestor with dinosaurs. Birds evolved from small theropods after the Cretaceous mass extinction. The endotherms, birds and mammals, are more closely related to each other than either group is to crocodilians. Reptiles and birds, but not mammals, are amniotes. Birds and mammals are more closely related because they are both diapsids.

Name: which of these statements correctly describes the phylogenetic relationship among birds mammals and reptiles select one birds share the closest common ancestor with dinosaurscross out birds 02003
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Description: which of these statements correctly describes the phylogenetic relationship among birds mammals and reptiles select one birds share the closest common ancestor with dinosaurscross out birds 02003

          Which of these statements correctly describes the phylogenetic relationship among birds, mammals, and reptiles?
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Birds share the closest common ancestor with dinosaurs.
Birds evolved from small theropods after the Cretaceous mass extinction.
The endotherms, birds and mammals, are more closely related to each other than either group is to crocodilians.
Reptiles and birds, but not mammals, are amniotes.
Birds and mammals are more closely related because they are both diapsids.

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Which of these statements correctly describes the phylogenetic relationship among birds, mammals, and reptiles? Select one: Birds share the closest common ancestor with dinosaurs. Birds evolved from small theropods after the Cretaceous mass extinction. The endotherms, birds and mammals, are more closely related to each other than either group is to crocodilians. Reptiles and birds, but not mammals, are amniotes. Birds and mammals are more closely related because they are both diapsids.