Phylogenetic Exam For Animal

10 Questions | By Colleennicole | Updated: Mar 21, 2022 | Attempts: 297

Questions

Settings

Create your own Quiz

Tool for studying for exam 1

Questions and Answers

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.