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explain dissimiliarlooking structures evolve from a common ancestral design taking wild cabbage as an example

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Organs evolving from common ancestor but have dissimilar structures are known as homologous organs. Wild cabbage is a common ancestor of cabbage, red cabbage, broccoli and cauliflower, that is, even the ancestor is same but the structures evolved are different in appearance.

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