Chapter 2 Flashcards
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Animalia
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A class of living things that includes all organisms that are heterotrophs (eat others for energy)
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Mammalian
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An order of animals characterized by effective internal generation/regulation and mammory glands
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Morphology
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The internal and external form/structure of an organism.
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Phylogeny
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The evolutionary history of a group of organisms
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Ancestral Trait
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Characteristic found in an ancestor and all of its descendants
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Derived Trait
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Characteristic found only in one descendant branch and not in the ancestral form
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Shared Derived Traits
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Characteristic found in more than one, but not all, descendant forms and not in the common ancestor
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Genomics
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Study of DNA, all associated molecules, chemicals, and evolutionary patterns
