Cladogram Practice

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Common descent

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Describes how a group of organisms share a most recent common ancestor.

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Which is more closely related?

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Gorilla and Human are more closely related than the other pairs.

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Similar DNA between two species indicates what?

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These animals have a common ancestor.

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What do well-adapted individuals produce?

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More offspring.

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According to a cladogram, birds are least related to which group?

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Sharks.

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What is a cladogram?

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A diagram that shows the evolutionary relationships among various biological species.

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What does a node represent in a cladogram?

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A common ancestor of the species that branch from that node.

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What is the significance of shared derived characteristics?

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They indicate evolutionary relationships and common ancestry.

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What is the difference between homologous and analogous structures?

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Homologous structures share a common ancestry, while analogous structures serve similar functions but do not share a common ancestor.

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What is the principle of parsimony in cladistics?

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The simplest explanation, or the one that requires the least number of evolutionary changes, is preferred.