Question

The descriptions of morphological traits are often _____ which are due to _____

(a) ambiguous, multiple genetic factors

(b) lucid, more than one genetic factors

(c) clear, multiple genetic factors

(d) ambiguous, one or two genetic factors

I have been asked this question by my school teacher while I was bunking the class.

Enquiry is from Phylogenetics Basics in portion Molecular Phylogenetics of Bioinformatics

Answer 1

Right answer is (a) ambiguous, multiple genetic factors

The best explanation: Thus, using fossil records to determine phylogenetic relationships can often be biased. For microorganisms, fossils are essentially nonexistent, which makes it impossible to study phylogeny with this approach.