botany: phylogenetic trees Flashcards
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Cladogram
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a diagram used to represent a hypothetical relationship between groups of animals, called a phylogeny
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ancestor
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an early type of animal or plant from which others have evolved
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descendant
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a person, plant, or animal that is descended from a particular ancestor
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taxon
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(plural taxa) is a group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit
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speciation event
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A moment in which the evolutional lineage splits, starting history of a new species
