Because ____ character states are shared by the ingroup and the outgroup, phylogenetic trees are constructed by cladistic analyses that group species that share only ____ character states.
A) derived; derived
B) nongenetic; genetic
C) derived; ancestral
D) ancestral; genetic
E) ancestral; derived

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Ancestral character states are shared by both the ingroup and the outgroup, while derived character states are unique to the ingroup and used to construct phylogenetic trees in cladistic analyses.

Because ____ Character States Are Shared by the Ingroup and the Outgroup