Evidence from Connecting Link

Evidences of Evolution of Class 12

Many animals present a clear example to connect two phyla by their features hence provide evidence for the rise of one phylum from another

Connecting link Between:

  • Virus – Living and non living
  • Blue-green algae – Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes (algae)
  • Euglena – Plants and Animals
  • Mastigamoeba – Rhizopoda and Flagellata
  • Slime moulds – Protists and Fungi
  • Proterospongia – Protozoans and Sponges
  • Dicyema (Mesozoa) – Ciliates and Sponges
  • Ctenophores – Radiata and Bilateria
  • Flat worms – Diploblastic and Triploblastic animals
  • Neopilina – Annelida and Mollusca
  • Peripatus – Annelida and Arthropoda
  • Chimaera – Osteichthyes and Chondrichthyes
  • Latimeria – Fishes and Amphibia; (Crossopterygain) & Dipnoi (lung fishes)
  • Archaeopteryx – Reptiles and Birds
  • Prototherian (Monotremes) – Reptiles and Mammal
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