systematic

Question 1

describes and analyses Earth’s biodiversity.

it is a combination of taxonomy and phylogenetic trees.

Answer 1

systematics

Question 2

science of discovering,
describing and classifying
groups or a ‘taxa

Answer 2

TAXONOMY

Question 3

science of recovering
evolutionary relationship in a
taxa

Answer 3

PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS

Question 4

visual representation of evolutionary history.

traces sharing of derived characters

does not show how ancestors are related to descendants or how much they change

Answer 4

CLADOGRAMS

Question 5

the lengths of branches represents the time
for a species to change

relates organisms based on
comparison of the similarities/differences of their anatomies.

concerning with who appears most similar to whom at one point in time

Answer 5

PHYLOGENETICS

Question 6

Ancestral Lineage

Answer 6

ROOT

Question 7

Groups of organisms
present in a node

Answer 7

TAXA/TAXON

Question 8

branching point from
the ancestral population

Answer 8

NODES

Question 9

Traits that are present in an ancestral species and remain present in the groups

Answer 9

PLESIOMORPHIC CHARACTERISTICS
(Shared Ancestral characteristics)

Question 10

Traits found into two or more taxa that first appeared in their recent common ancestor.

Answer 10

SYNAPOMORPHIC CHARACTERISTICS
(Shared Derived Characteristics)

Question 11

Characteristics that appear in recent
parts and not in its older member.

Answer 11

DERIVED CHARACTERISTICS