Chap. 26 - Book Flashcards
What is a phylogeny?
Evolutionary history of a species OR group of species
A phylogeny is the ___ history of a ___ or a group of ___
evolutionary, species, species
How do biologists reconstruct and interpret phylogenies?
Systematics
What do phylogenies show?
Evolutionary relationships
Taxonomy is the study of how _____ are named and classified
organisms
What is the first part of a binomial?
name of the genus to which a species belongs
What is the second part of a binomial?
epithet - (species)
Name Linneaus’s classification orders:
domains kingdom phylum class order family genus species
Does the Linnean system tell us about the evolutionary relationship between groups (amphibians, mammals, reptiles, etc.)?
No
Is the Linnean system based entirely on evolutionary relationships between organisms?
No, it is not (which is why a new system of classification is needed = cladistics)
Does a phylogenetic tree represent a hypothesis or certain evolutionary relationships?
a phylogenetic tree represents a hypothesis about evolutionary relationships
PHYLOGENETIC TREE
Groups of organisms that share an immediate common ancestor
sister taxa
PHYLOGENETIC TREE
2 organisms that are each other’s most close relatives
sister taxa
What is the term for a lineage that diverges early in the history of a group and originates near the common ancestor of the group?
basal taxon
To be ______ means that a branch point within the tree presents the most recent common ancestor of ALL taxa in the tree
rooted
What is a polytomy?
a branch point from which more than two descendants emerge
What does a polytomy signify?
evolutionary relationship is not clear
Are phylogenetic trees to show phenotypic similarity? What are they to show?
No, patterns of descent
extant
living
the similarity in the number and arrangement of bones int he forelimbs of mammals is due to their descent form a common ancestor with the same bone structure. This is an example of what?
Morphological homology
analogous structures that arose independently
homoplasies
With respect to flight, a bat’s wing is ______, not _____ to a bird’s wing
analogous, homologous
T/F the more elements that are similar in two complex structures, the more likely it is that they evolved form a common ancestor
True
SYSTEMATICS
in cladistics, what is the primary criterion used to classify organisms?
Common ancestry
What is a clade?
an ancestral species and all of its descendants
When is a taxon equivalent to a clade?
When the taxon is monophyletic
Taxon
a taxonomic group of any rank (species, genus, etc.)
What is the difference between monophyletic, paraphyletic and polyphyletic?
monophyletic: an ancestral species and ALL its descendants
paraphyletic: an ancestral species and some, but NOT ALL of its descendants
polyphyletic: distantly related species but not a recent common ancestor