Problem: Sometimes words with the same meaning will look similar in two different languages; below you have been given four reasons that this may be the case. Identify the reason that is false.
a. The similarities may be due to chance.
b. One language may have borrowed the word in question from the other language.
c. The similarities may be attributed to certain genetic (biological) structures present in all human beings.
d. The words in question may be cognates, meaning that they both derive from the same word in some ancestral tongue.