Ch. 26: Phylogeny

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Phylogenies show

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Evolutionary relationships

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Phylogenies are

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Inferred from morphological and molecular data

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Shared characteristics are used to

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Construct phylogenetic trees

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An organism’s history is

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Documented in its genome

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Phylogeny

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Classification system based upon evolutionary ancestral relatedness

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Phylogenetic tree

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A graphical representation of a phylogeny
AKA evolutionary tree
-Parts: root, node, branch, outgroup, polytomy, tip

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Root

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• Special node (1st node)

- A branch point within the tree represents the most recent common ancestor of all taxa in the tree

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Node

AKA Branch point

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• Relationships often depicted as a series of dichotomies

- Each node represents the divergence of two evolutionary lineages from a common ancestor

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Branch

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Connects a node and the Taxa

- usually dichotomous

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Outgroup

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Not included into in a phylogeny that is being studied

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Polytomy

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• More than two descendant groups emerge
• Three branches off of a node
• Not sure relatedness of which one is closer to which

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Ancestral trait

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Character present in ancestor

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Derived trait

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Modified character present in a descendent

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Cladistics

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Willi Henry 1950

- relationships among species can be reconstructed by identifying shared derived traits, called Synapomorphy (homology)

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Synapomorphy (Homology)

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Shared derived traits

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Sister Taxa

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Groups of organisms that share an immediate common ancestor (branch point)

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Basal Taxa

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A lineage that diverges early in the history of a group

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Clade (lineage)

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Monophyletic group that includes an ancestral population and all its descendent, but NO others

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Monophyletic

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Ancestral species (common ancestor) and all of its descendants 
AKA clade

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Paraphyletic

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• Ancestral species and some, but not all, of its descendants
• Minus one branch

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Polyphyletic

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• Ancestral species is NOT part of the group
• More branches than are apart of a monophyletic group
• One additional branch

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Homology

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• Similarity due to common ancestry

- Character that is similar among to a group of organisms due to common ancestry

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Homoplasy

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• Similarity due to reasons other than shared ancestry
• Converged Evolution
• Analogous structures that arose independently
• Similar structure or molecular sequence that has evolved independently in two species

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Length of branch

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• Is a function of time
• Can be based on fossil records
• Genetically = molecular “clock”
• Shorter time = less mutations

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Endotherms are a

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Polyphyletic group => homoplasy

Question 26

Morphological Homology

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- Structured derived from a common ancestor used for the same function in the species in which it occurred - anatomical feature - i.e. hand, wing, fin

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Molecular Homology

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Species placed in the same taxonomical group based on similar genetics (DNA, RNA, protein)

Question 28

Anole Lizard Example

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1. Population grew, tree fell, some moved to the other side of the river 2. Tree decomposed, lizards stuck/isolated from one another, needed new ways of doing things * 3. Allopatric Speciation: mutation occurred because of isolation 4. Different mutations occurring continuously; one mutation accumulating in on population versus the other based on needed 5. Doolap color changed, sexual selection occurring [sexual selection, behavioral]

Question 29

1st branch point

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oldest 2, 3, 4, 5, etc... AKA node

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Parsimonious

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simplest