Multiple choice

The evolutionary concept that evolution is not reversible and the characteristics once discarded during the track of evolution do not reappear in a given line of organisms was given by which of the following rules?

  1. Allen's rule

  2. Cope's rule

  3. Shannon's rule

  4. Jordan's rule

  5. Dollo's rule
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Explanation

Dollo's rule states that the evolution is not reversible and that the characteristics or functions once discarded during the track of evolution do not reappear in a given line of organisms.

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