Dogs have a reduced nonfunctional digit on their paws known as a dewclaw. What is this an example of?

analogous structure

homologous structure

vestigial structure

mutated structure

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Scarlet Graves

Biology

21 April, 14:09

Dogs have a reduced nonfunctional digit on their paws known as a dewclaw. What is this an example of?

analogous structure

homologous structure

vestigial structure

mutated structure

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Stella Valencia · Answer 1

The correct answer is Vestigial structure, and this is why:

a vestigial structure is a structure that has lost most of its ancestral function. So the reduced nonfunctional digit (dewclaw) would be considered a vestigial structure.

Eve Marks · Answer 2

It is an example of vestigal structure.

Dogs have a reduced nonfunctional digit on their paws known as a dewclaw. What is this an example of?analogous structurehomologous structurevestigial structuremutated structure

Dogs have a reduced nonfunctional digit on their paws known as a dewclaw. What is this an example of?

analogous structure

homologous structure

vestigial structure

mutated structure