Module 10 Everything I Need To Know

Question 1

Describe the utilisation of the rule of parsimony

Answer 1

The best hypothesis is the one with less evolutionary changes

Question 2

describe the goals of systematics list progressively under broader categories of classification used in systematics from most specific to most general

Answer 2

Systematics tries to describe evolutionary relationships with classification

Kingdom phylum class order family genus species

Question 3

Systematic is

Answer 3

Reconstructing evolutionary relationships

Question 4

Phylogeny

Answer 4

Hypothesis about relationships

Question 5

Cladogram

Answer 5

Measures relationships but does not measure time

Question 6

Taxon

Answer 6

Group

Question 7

Clade

Answer 7

Lineage. encompasses all species that come off a branch point

Question 8

Phylogenetic trees organized organisms on the basis of

Answer 8

Shared characteristics

Question 9

Homologous character

Answer 9

Characteristic that was inherited from a common ancestor

Question 10

Analogous characteristic

Answer 10

Similar traits because of similar environmental pressures

Question 11

Molecular comparisons

Answer 11

Looking for similarities in nucleotide sequence limited because of mutations and changes in reading frame

Question 12

Shared characteristics

Answer 12

All members of a clade have it but some lost it because of evolutionary reversal

Question 13

Vertical Gene transfer

Answer 13

Transferring genes from parent to offspring

Question 14

Horizontal Gene transfer

Answer 14

Transferring genes between species

Question 15

Monophyletic taxon is the same as

Answer 15

Clade