The Absence of Stripes on the Wings Is the Ancestral

Multiple Choice

The absence of stripes on the wings is the ancestral state of a family of butterflies.One lineage contains five species, four with red stripes and one with no stripes.Genetic analysis revealed that the species without stripes recently lost these stripes.This is an example of _______, which is a(n) _______.

A) an evolutionary reversal; homoplasy
B) an evolutionary reversal; synapomorphy
C) convergent evolution; homoplasy
D) convergent evolution; synapomorphy
E) convergent evolution; evolutionary reversal