Small leaves and fast flowering are important adaptations for plants that live in cold temperatures and water-logged/frozen soils. plants exhibiting these traits are present in alpine biomes, but species are different, and found in different families, in the northern rocky mountains and the andes. what is the most likely explanation for this observation?

Convergent evolution

Explanation:

The question above shows a case of convergent evolution.

Convergent evolution is a process that allows similar characteristics to emerge in two species that are not directly related, that is, that do not have a common ancestor that allows genetic similarities to justify this characteristic in common. These characteristics are even called analogous structures. It is common for this type of evolution to occur through natural selection because the selective pressure of an environment allows adapted characteristics to remain in a species.

c.) polymerase chain reaction

- "unlike the original dna fingerprinting method, dna profiling does not use restriction enzymes to cut the dna. instead it uses the polymerase chain reaction (pcr)? to produce many copies of specific str sequences. pcr is an automated procedure that generates lots of copies of a specific sequence of dna."

rain is the best answer