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Biology AP- 26 Phylogeny and the Tree of Life

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26.1 phylogeny
Whats phylogeny,
Whats systematics,
Whats taxonomy
16  cards
26.2 morphological and molecular data
Whats morphological homology,
Analogy,
Whats convergent evolution
6  cards
26.3 Cladistics
Whats cladistics,
In cladistics biologists put orga...,
Monophyletic
6  cards
26.3 cladistics 2
In vertebrates the backbone is __...,
Whats a shared ancestral character,
In mammals hair is a ________ all...
7  cards
26.3 parsimony and likelihood
How do you figure out which phylo...,
Whats maximum parsimony,
Maximum parsimony examples
5  cards
26.3 hypothesis
Phylogenetic trees represent_____...,
A process that predicts features ...,
Example of phylogenetic bracketing
3  cards
26.4 Genome
How do scientists use dna to trac...,
Long periods of time use what typ...,
Short periods of time use what ty...
3  cards
26.4 tracing gene duplications
Why are gene duplications importa...,
Gene duplications lead to gene fa...,
Types of homologous genes 2
7  cards
26.5 molecular clocks
Molecular clock,
Assumption of molecular clock in ...,
Assumption of molecular clock in ...
5  cards

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