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how many times did chitin evolve?

how many times did chitin evolve?
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This is about homoplasies. An homoplasy is a evolutionary trait that doesn't have a unique ancestor that developed it, it means it appeared more than one time in history developed by different organisms. Let's start analyzing.

Chitin is present in 2 Kingdoms, Animalia and Fungi. The whole Fungi Kingdom has the chitin cell walls, they have a common origin for that, but the chitin in animalia is not from that same origin. Now, in animalia the Phyla Arthropoda, Mollusca and Chordata. Even though Arthropoda and Mollusca are not farly related they don't share a common ancestor. So chitin evolved 3 times, one for mushrooms, one for arthropods, and for mollusks and one for some chordates (some fish)

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