Asked by daniel

Look at the table on the right. Which of these two organisms are most closely related?

Brown rat and Eastern cottontail rabbit

Brown rat and Eastern gray squirrel

Eastern cottontail rabbit and Eastern gray squirrel
A 4-column table has 8 rows. The first column has entries D, K, P, C, O, F, G, S. The second column is labeled Brown rat with entries Eukarya, Animalia, Chordata, Mammalia, Rodentia, Muridae, Rattus, norvegicus. The third column is labeled Eastern cottontail rabbit with entries Eukarya, Animalia, Chordata, Mammalia, Lagomorpha, Leporidae, Sylvilagus, floridanus. The fourth column is labeled Eastern gray squirrel with entries Eukarya, Animalia, Chordata, Mammalia, Rodentia, Sciuridae, Sciurus, carolinensis.

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
Brown rat and Eastern gray squirrel.

They both belong to the order Rodentia (so they share D, K, P, C, and O), whereas the rabbit is in a different order (Lagomorpha) and thus is less closely related.