A living connecting link, which provides evidence for organic evolution is

Archeopteryx between reptiles and mammals

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Lung fish between pisces and reptiles

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Duck billed Platypus between reptiles and mammals

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Sphenodon between reptiles and birds

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Solution

The correct option is C Duck billed Platypus between reptiles and mammals
Duck billed platypus is an egg laying mammal that have mammary glands, hair, diaphragm but resemble to reptiles in having large caracoid in pectoral girdle and production of amniotic eggs. This makes option C correct.

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Column I (Organism)	Column II (Connecting link)
A. Echidna	1. between Annelida and Mollusca
B. Peripatus	2. between Reptiles and Mammals
C. Neopilina	3. between Annelida and Arthropoda
D. Protopterus	4. between Pisces and Amphibian