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ACT Aspire Reading: Why Does the Author Compare Two Species of Frogs? 1 Views
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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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