BIO 2 CLADISTICS

Question 1

What is Cladistics?

Answer 1

A method of classification of animals and plants according to the proportion of measurable characteristics that they have in common.

Question 2

Came from the word clade.
A clade is a group of organisms which includes an ancestor and all of its descendant species.
It uses cladogram

Answer 2

Cladistics?

Question 3

It represents the initial ancestor common to all organisms within the cladogram.

Answer 3

Root

Question 4

It corresponds to a common ancestor that speciated to give rise to two (or more) daughter taxa.

Answer 4

Node

Question 5

It is the most distantly related species in the cladogram. Functions as a point of comparison.

Answer 5

Outgroup

Question 6

It is the species of interest, the group of closely related organisms that is investigated.

Answer 6

Ingroup

Question 7

is the species of interest, the group of closely related organisms that is investigated.
Outgroup It is the most distantly

Answer 7

Ingroup

Question 8

It is the most distantly related species in the cladogram. Functions as a point of comparison

Answer 8

Outgroup

Question 9

are traits inherited from a common ancestor.

Answer 9

Ancestral traits

Question 10

are traits that have evolved when two groups shared a common ancestor.

Answer 10

Derived traits