Lab 3 - phylogenies Flashcards
taxon
named group of organisms at any level of biological hierarchy
ancestral can be also know as
derived
ancestral and derived are used to refer to the
time of the appearance certain traits in evolutionary history
when is a structure ancestral
if it is found in the earliest member of an evolutionary lineage
when is a structure derived
if it is found in later members of the lineage
a _____ trait is changed from the ancestral form
derived
ancestral or
plesiomorphic
derived or
apomorphic
shared derive characters are known as
synapomorphies
shared ancestral characters are known as
symplesiomorphies
synapomorphies are traits that
are shared by two or more groups of taxa AND that originates in their last common ancestor
symplesiomorphies
shared ancestral trait
Synapomorphy
shared derived trait
autapomorphy
derived trait that is NOT shared
a character that exists in a single taxon only is called
autapomorphy
homologous structures result from
divergent evolution
analogous structures result from
convergent evolution
sister taxa
groups that share a common ancestor AND are more related to each other than to other groups
parsimony
assumes the simplest interpretation of all available data is likely the correct explanation
principle used to decide between several hypotheses
parsimony
the most parsimonious tree is the one with
the fewest number of characters mapped on
cladistics
the method of determining evolutionary relationships by analyzing the features they share
a phylogenetic trees obtained via cladistics is termed a
cladogram
homoplasy
collective name for a series of conditions that violate the assumptions of cladistics analysis
what are examples of homoplasy
- reversals
- convergences
convergence
independent origins of a feature in unrelated lineages