Phylogenetic Exam For Animal
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- 1.The goal for animal _________ is to arrange animals into groups that reflect _______ _________ .
- 2.What is the tool used to depict evolutionary relationships?
- A.
Dendrodites
- B.
Fossil
- C.
Cladistics
- D.
Nomenclature
- E.
Phylogenetic Tree
- 3.The two types of phylogenetic trees are __________ and _________.
- 4.Cladograms help indicate
- A.
Distance
- B.
Recent common ancestor
- 5.What are the three main schools of systematics used to construct trees?
- A.
Molecular systematics
- B.
Numerical taxonomy (phenetics)
- C.
Cladistics/Phylogenetics
- D.
Anatomical taxonomy
- E.
Evolutionary systematics
- 6._______________ _____________ says that organisms closely related to an ancestor will resemble that ancestor more closely than they resemble distantly related organisms.
- 7.Resemblances that result from common ancestry, common evolutionary orgins are called:
- A.
Homologies
- B.
Analogies
- C.
Homoplasy
- 8.Resemblances that evolved independently of each other are called:
- A.
Homologies
- B.
Analogies
- C.
Homoplasy
- 9.____________ _________ mathematically computes organismal relatedness based on the total number of shared techniques.
- 10.These are characteristcs of phylogentics/cladistics
- A.
The classification is based upon recency of common decent
- B.
Uses three types: analogies, homologies, and homoplasy to classify
- C.
The use of mathematical techniques to classify organisms.
- D.
Relationships are based on the number of shared characteristics.
- E.
Priority is given to the number of shared, derived characteristics.
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