Ch. 26: Phylogeny Flashcards

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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

26
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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)

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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
  3. Different mutations occurring continuously; one mutation accumulating in on population versus the other based on needed
  4. Doolap color changed, sexual selection occurring
    [sexual selection, behavioral]
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1st branch point

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oldest
2, 3, 4, 5, etc…
AKA node

30
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Parsimonious

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simplest