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taxonomy

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science of describing, naming, classifying organisms

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taxon

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unit of taxonomic classification

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plural of taxon

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taxa

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systematics

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study of biological diversity and evolutionary relationships among organisms

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extinct

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no longer present

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extant

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taxa that exist today

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phylogeny

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history of descent of a group of taxa from their common ancestors

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phylogenetics

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study of phylogenies

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phylogenetic trees

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diagrams taht depict phylogenies

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what is taxonomy

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used to organize groups of species into progressively smaller hierarchical groups

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originally what was the most inclusive taxonomic group

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kingdom

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what system was used for many years

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5 kingdom system

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what are the 5 kingdoms

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monera, protista, fungi, plantae, animalia

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monera

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single celled prokaryotic organisms (cells don’t have nucleus) w/ no true nuclear membrane

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example of monera

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bacteria

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protists

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mostly single celled eukaryotic organisms (meaning cell has a nucleus),

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examples of protists

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amoebas

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multicellular protists

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kelp, red algae, slime molds

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fungi

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eukaryotic organisms with chitin in cell wallys

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examples of fungi

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yeasts, molds, mushrooms

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what are fungi

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heterotrophs (liike animals)

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how do heterotrophs take in food

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take in food, don’t make food; do this by secreting digestive enzymes and absorbing nutrients

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plantae

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multicellular eukaryotes

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how do plantae make their living

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photosynthesis

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do plantae make their own food

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yuh

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animalia

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multicellular eukaryotes

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how do animalia make their living

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consuming organic material

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how do animalia reproduce

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sexually (unique development)

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3 domain system

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eukarya, prokarya/bacteria, archaea

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eukarya

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multicellular eukaryotes

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bacteria

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prokaryotes

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archaea

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single celled prokaryotes

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another name for archaea

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extremophiles

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one purpose of taxonomy

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to name species

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who did modern species taxonomy start with

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Carl Linnaeus

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what did Linnaeus do

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introduced binomial nomenclature in 1753 ‘species plantarum’ and ‘systema naturae’

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describe binomial nomenclature

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each species has two parts, a genus and a species

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how is studying systematics interesting

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relatedness

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describe relatedness

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who is most closely related to who; are dogs more closely related to cats or pigs, etc.

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eagles and falcons

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due to molecular phylogenetic data, falcons are more closely related to parrots and songbirds than hawks

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shrews

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elephant shrews are more closely related to elephants than shrews

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why else is studying systematics interesting

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trait evolution and comparative biology

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trait evolution and comparative biology

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phylogenetic trees provide a foundation for understanding many aspects of evolutionary history, like pathways thru which various characters evolved [how many times did wings evolve? etc.]

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another reason why studying systematics is interesting

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cutting edge technology

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cutting edge technology

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use of molecular data, including whole genome sequences

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yet another reason why its interesting

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detective work

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detectie work

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we can’t observe evolutionary history, must infer it by phylogenetic methods [use characters on living organisms, fossils, DNA to give clues]

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tree of life metaphor

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200 yrs before darwin they used tree as a representation of the history of life

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what is tree of life/universal tree of life used for

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metaphor, model, research tool used to explore evolution of life and describe relationships b/w organisms, living and extinct

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basically what do trees show

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ancestor, descendant relationships; history of evolutionary lineages that have branched over time

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root

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common ancestor of all taxa

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node

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a branchpoint in a tree

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clade

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a group of two or more taxa that includes both their common ancestor and all their descendents

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what do phylogenetic trees do

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depict lines of descent from common ancestors; hierarchical in pattern

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monophyletic group

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includes ALL the descendants of a common ancestor

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another way to describe monophyletic group

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a taxon that is a clade

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what is in monophyletic group

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most recent common ancestor of a group of organisms and all its descendants

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basically what does monophyletic mean

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the group of descendants in question share a common ancestor

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what are trees formed from

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nested monophyletic groups

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are phylogenetic trees hierarchical

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yeah

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how do we know if a group is monophyletic

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rotate the node, see if highlighted box will fit the same taxa inside

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what is a clade

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monophyletic group; includes ALL and ONLY the descendants of a particular ancestor

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what are groups that are non-monophyletic?

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paraphyletic

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paraphyletic group

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group that includes some but not all of the descendants of a common ancestor

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polyphyletic group

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members of multiple evolutionary lineages, but don’t include the most recent common ancestor + descendants

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does length of branches matter

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no; don’t tell us anything about evolutionary descent

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does order of letters matter

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no; rotating the branches doesn’t change relationships

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why are phylogenies important

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provide objective criterion for organizing biodiversity, framework for posing and testing biological questions, predictive power

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synapomorphies

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shared derived traits

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what diagnoses monophyletic groups

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synapomorphies

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how do we infer phylogeny

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synapomorphies

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what are newly evolved characters that are shared

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synapomorphies

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apomorphy

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newly evolved character that ISNT shared

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do apomorphies tell us about evolution

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nope

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homologous characters

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characters that a given set of organisms have inherited from their common ancestor

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character

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particular trait of interest (number of digits on the forelimb)

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character state

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a given character can have many different character states (5 digits on forelimb, one digit on forelimb, etc.)

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ingroup

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the group on interest, assumed to be monophyletic w/r to outgroup

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what is ingroup w/r to outgroup

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assumed to be monophyletic

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what is outgroup

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group of taxon related to ingroup

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steps

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number of inferred changes in character state on a tree

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most parsimonious tree

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tree w/ shortest number of steps or changes

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plesiomorphy

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ancestral character state

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symplesiomorphy

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shared ancestral characters, not phylogenetically informative

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apomorphy

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derived character state

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synapomorphy

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shared derived character, most useful for inferring phylogenetic relatedness

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autapomorphy

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unique derived character state, not useful for inferring relationships, but helpful for identification of species

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what does cladistics use

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parsimony/occam’s razor

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what is occam’s razor

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among competing hypotheses, the one w/ fewest assumptions should be selected

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homoplasy

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convergence

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what happens when there’s a lot of homoplasy/convergence in characters

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parsimony does a poor job of reconstructing phylogenetic relationships; model based statistical approaches are better

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convergent evolution

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homoplasy

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what is best option for dealing w/ long branches

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model based methods able to take into account probability of reversals in character states

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maximum likelihood (ML)

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given a specific model of evolution and a possible tree, this method calculates the likelihood of observing the data, and the algorithms used in analysis calculate this likelihood score across many trees and optimize that likelihood to determine which tree is best

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bayesian

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maximized the probability of observing a particular tree, given the model and the data, unlike the ML method, Bayesian analysis provides the probability of a set of different trees so that they can be compared and summarized

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what else can we use phylogenies for besides species

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to shed light on the history among individuals and populations wihtin a single species

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what else can phylogenies use to make (what kinda trees)

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gene trees, gene geneologies

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what are gene trees

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shows which haplotypes are more closely related within a region

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what is gene duplication followed by

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speciation

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orthologous genes

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loci in diff species descended from same locus in most recent ancestor

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paralogous genes

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loci in same/diff species descended from diff duplicate genes in ancestral species

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are orthologs homologous loci

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yes

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who is more closely related orthologs or paralogous loci

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orthologs/ homologous loci

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what does each branching event in a tree denote

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gene duplication event

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what does gene phylogeny tell us

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about relative timing of these events, helps us infer when duplications occur (creating alpha and beta hemoglobin families and within these gene subfamilies)

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what else can we use phylogenies to do

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to make inferences about evolution of physical traits (ex. evolution of opposable toes in hominids)

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what else can molecular phylogenetic studies do

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study timing of diversification and events

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what do differences in sequences in concert w/ estimates of timing of splits do

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serve as molecular clock, used to calibrate evolutionary trees to absolute time

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homoplasy

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independent evolution of a character/character state on a phylogenetic tree

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three classes of homoplasy

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convergent evolution, parallel evolution, evolutionary reversal

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what else can we use evolutionary trees to do

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help tease apart evolution of similarities among species due to independent evolution of similar characters over evolutionary time

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convergent evolution

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ex. hummingbirds and sunbirds independently evolving long, slender bills for feeding

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what do phylogenies describe

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patterns of diversification

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what can phylogenies be used to reconstruct

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history of adaptive radiations

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