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o Mutation - ✔️✔️These are four mechanisms that shift allele/genotype frequencies in
populations:
Edits or selects for traits already present in the population - ✔️✔️Selection does what
when present in a population?
fitness - ✔️✔️is the ability of an individual to produce offspring, relative to that ability in
other individuals in the population
•Phylogenic trees show patterns of descent, NOT phenotypic similarity
•Phylogenetic trees do not generally indicate when a species evolved or how much
change occurred in a lineage - ✔️✔️Why do we construct phylogenetic trees?
cladistics - ✔️✔️uses the presence of shared derived characters to infer phylogeny
shared ancestral character - ✔️✔️is a character that originated is an ancestor of the taxon
shared derived character - ✔️✔️is an evolutionary novelty unique to a particular clade
it allows the construction of phylogenetic trees; synapomorphic characters show close
relationships- they can indicate which groups are derived from which ancestors -
✔️✔️What is a synapomorphy, why are they important?
• Homology is similarity due to shared ancestry
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