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Lab 3 - phylogenies Flashcards

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taxon

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named group of organisms at any level of biological hierarchy

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ancestral can be also know as

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derived

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ancestral and derived are used to refer to the

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time of the appearance certain traits in evolutionary history

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when is a structure ancestral

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if it is found in the earliest member of an evolutionary lineage

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when is a structure derived

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if it is found in later members of the lineage

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a _____ trait is changed from the ancestral form

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derived

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ancestral or

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plesiomorphic

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derived or

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apomorphic

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shared derive characters are known as

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synapomorphies

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shared ancestral characters are known as

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symplesiomorphies

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synapomorphies are traits that

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are shared by two or more groups of taxa AND that originates in their last common ancestor

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symplesiomorphies

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shared ancestral trait

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Synapomorphy

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shared derived trait

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autapomorphy

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derived trait that is NOT shared

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a character that exists in a single taxon only is called

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autapomorphy

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homologous structures result from

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divergent evolution

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analogous structures result from

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convergent evolution

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sister taxa

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groups that share a common ancestor AND are more related to each other than to other groups

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parsimony

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assumes the simplest interpretation of all available data is likely the correct explanation

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principle used to decide between several hypotheses

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parsimony

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the most parsimonious tree is the one with

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the fewest number of characters mapped on

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cladistics

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the method of determining evolutionary relationships by analyzing the features they share

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a phylogenetic trees obtained via cladistics is termed a

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cladogram

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homoplasy

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collective name for a series of conditions that violate the assumptions of cladistics analysis

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what are examples of homoplasy

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  1. reversals
  2. convergences
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convergence

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independent origins of a feature in unrelated lineages

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reversals

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a lineage has exhibited a derived character at some point in its evolutionary history BUT the character has reverted to an ancestral state

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tree length is defined as the

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sum of the minimum number of substitutions OVER all sites fro the given topology

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Consistency Index (CI)

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measures the number of times a single character changes

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how to calculate CI

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total number of characters used/sum of each time the character is mapped

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what does a CI of 1 mean

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the characters are only mapped once (NO homoplasy)

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what does a CI of less than 1 mean

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the characters are mapped MORE than once (homoplasy)

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three types of phylogenies

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  1. monophyletic
  2. polyphyletic
  3. paraphyletic
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monophyletic

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groups contain the most recent CA and ALL of the descedants

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polyphyletic

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  • Doesn’t include most recent
    the CA of all
    group members
  • members derived from two
    or more ancestral forms
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paraphyletic

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Contains MOST recent
common ancestor of
all group members
and SOME of its
descendants

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OG

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the taxon that is closely related to, but NOT part of, the ingroup (group under study)

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myxini

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petromyzontida

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Chondrichthyes

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sharks, rays, skates

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aquatic Osteichthyes

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ray-finned fish, coelacanths, lungfish

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amphibia

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frogs, salamanders, toads,

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reptilia

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birds, turtles, lizards, snakes

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Mammalia

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rodents, carnivores, ungulates, primates

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what taxonomic group is this

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what taxonomic group is this

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petromyzontida

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what taxonomic group is this

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aquatic Osteichthyes

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what taxonomic group is this

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Chondrichthyes

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what taxonomic group is this

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what taxonomic group is this

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what taxonomic group is this

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reptilia/birds

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what taxonomic group is this

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what trait is common to ALL vertebrates in this lab

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what trait is do cephalochordate NOT have

54
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what trait do myxini and petromyzontida NOT have

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what trait do Chondrichthyes NOT have

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bony skeleton

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what trait do aquatic Osteichthye NOT have

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what trait does amphibia not have

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amniotic eggs

58
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what trait do reptilia not have

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mammary glands

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what type of tree is this (1)

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monophyletic

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what type of tree is this (2)

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paraphyletic

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what type of tree is this (3)

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polyphyletic

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what does tree 1 represent

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what does tree 2 represent

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plesiomorphy

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what does tree 3 represent

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autapomorphy

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what does tree 4 represent

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synapomorphy

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what does tree 5 represent

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