Phylogenetic Tree Exam Questions with Complete Answers Latest Update 2024 (Rated A+)
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Phylogenetic Tree
Phylogenetic Tree Exam Questions with Complete Answers Latest Update 2024 (Rated A+)
Phylogenetic Tree - Answers a visual representation of the relationship between species, taxa, individual, population, etc.
Node - Answers a hypothetical ancestor, usually denotes a speciation or separation eve...
Phylogenetic Tree Exam Questions with Complete Answers Latest Update 2024 (Rated A+)
Phylogenetic Tree - Answers a visual representation of the relationship between species, taxa,
individual, population, etc.
Node - Answers a hypothetical ancestor, usually denotes a speciation or separation event
Branch - Answers represents the evolution of a lineage
Tip - Answers species, individual, or other entity that we are studying
Operational Taxonomic Units (OTU) - Answers technical term for the tip in the tree
Ingroup - Answers the subgroup of interest in a study
Outgroup - Answers one or more species included to provide the direction in a phylogenetic study
Root - Answers ...
Putative Ancestor - Answers ...
Clade - Answers a species, meaning an ancestor, and all of its descendants
Monophyletic - Answers a taxonomic group consisting of all descendants of the group's most recent
common ancestor and nothing else
Polyphyletic - Answers a disjointed group of descendants
-ex: pachyderms
Paraphyletic - Answers a group that does not contain all of the descendants of the group's most
common ancestor
Sauropsida - Answers the monophyletic group that includes all birds and reptiles (including dinosaurs)
Reptiles - Answers a paraphyletic group that doesn't include birds
Vertebrates - Answers the monophyletic group that includes fishes, birds, mammals, etc
Fishes - Answers a paraphyletic group that doesn't include tetrapods
Cladogram - Answers tree with no information in the branch lengths
Phylogram - Answers tree with evolutionary change (molecular change) represented as the branch
lengths
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