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Analogous organs arise due to:

Analogous organs refer to those organs that are not anatomically similar but perform similar functions i.e., they evolved from different ancestors. Such analogous organs result into convergent evolution.


That is different structures evolving for the same function and hence having similarity.


Hence the correct answer is option (d).

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