The tuatara is a lizard-like reptile found only in new zealand today, the last surviving lineage of a large group of reptiles that were contemporaries of the dinosaurs. what traits would you expect the tuatara to possess?

The tuatara is a lizard-like reptile found only in New Zealand today, the last surviving lineage of a large group of reptiles that were contemporaries of the dinosaurs.

The traits that would i expect the tuatara to possess are:

Explanation:

Living fossil is an expression used to qualify non-extinct species that are extremely similar to species identified only through fossils.

A pineal eye is a part of the epithalamus present in some animal species. The eye can be a photoreceptor and is commonly associated with the pineal gland, regulating the circadian rhythm and hormonal production for thermoregulation. The tuatara has a developed parietal eye, with retina and lens.

answer; i believe that the correct answer is(d) nondisjunction during meiosis;

allowed for the prediction of the properties of missing elements.