Which of the following terms is NOT correctly associated?
A) synapomorphy-a derived character shared by members of a clade
B) monophyly-one group formed from animals with two separate ancestors
C) adaptive zone-a way of life
D) cladogram-a nested hierarchy of clades represented as a branching diagram
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Q11: A taxon is paraphyletic if it
A)includes the
Q12: One way of establishing whether a character
Q13: Homoplasy involves
A)any two organisms with exactly the
Q14: What is a taxon that comprises a
Q15: Which is NOT a major goal of
Q17: Characters used to distinguish one group from
Q18: A phylogeny based on evolutionary theory will
A)explain
Q19: A taxon is polyphyletic if it
A)includes the
Q20: Who developed the present system of classification?
A)Aristotle
B)John
Q21: To a cladist,the statement that birds (a
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