Shared derived traits
A) are shared only by common ancestors.
B) are shared by all organisms on the cladogram.
C) are found within members of the outgroup.
D) are homologies found in only certain members of the ingroup.
E) are homologies found between the ingroup and the outgroup.

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Shared derived traits, or synapomorphies, are characteristics that are present in an ancestral species and shared exclusively by its evolutionary descendants, which are members of the ingroup.

Shared Derived Traits