Cladistics

Question 1

Taxonomic Classification

Answer 1

hierarhcial organising systems based on ancetral and trait similairies

Question 2

cladistic analysis

Answer 2

identifying close relatives by lining up traits

Question 3

monotypic

Answer 3

members of a single species in a genus (homo sapien; humans)

Question 4

polytypic

Answer 4

genus consisting of several species (pan troglydytes + pan paniscus: chimps and bonobo make up pan)

Question 5

homonoid clade

Answer 5

humans
african apes
asian apes (oranguatans, gibbons, siamangs)

Question 6

homiae

Answer 6

subfamily + great apes

Question 7

homini

Answer 7

humans + ancestors

Question 8

regrouped group?

Answer 8

tarsier moved from strep to haplor order

Question 9

derived traits

Answer 9

specialisazations that distinush a sepcies from its last common ancestor

Question 10

homology

Answer 10

shared derived traits of different species who share a common ancestor

Question 11

example of homology in primates

Answer 11

knuckle walking in gorillas and chimps

Question 12

analogy

Answer 12

converget evolution/parallel evolutino: same trait but independent origin

Question 13

example of an analogous trait

Answer 13

suspensory ocomotion in NW atelins and apes

trichomatic vision in cathyrines and holwer monkes

Question 14

other name for analogous traits

Answer 14

homoplasy

Question 15

how do homoplasys happen

Answer 15

mutations