Q3 M11 Systematics Based on Evolutionary Relationships: Cladistics and Phylogeny

Question 1

It is the history of the evolution of a
species or group

Answer 1

Phylogeny

Question 2

It is a method of classifying organisms
into groups of species called clades

Answer 2

Cladistics

Question 3

It is a group consisting of an ancestral
organism and all its evolutionary
descendants

Answer 3

Clade

Question 4

It is a tree diagram where each branch
point represents the splitting of two.
new groups from a common ancestor

Answer 4

Cladogram

Question 4

It is the classification of organisms based
on traits of ancestor and descendant

Answer 4

Systematics

Question 5

It corresponds to a common ancestor
that speciated to give rise to two (or more)
daughter taxa

Answer 5

Node

Question 5

It represents the initial ancestor common
to all organisms within the cladogram

Answer 5

Root

Question 6

It is the most distantly related species in
the cladogram. Functions as a point
of comparison

Answer 6

Outgroup

Question 7

It is the species of interest, the group
of closely related organisms that
is investigated

Answer 7

Ingroup