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(Solved): 1. What does a phylogeny tree depict? 2. Which one-do scientists prefer to see on a tree? A polytom ...





1. What does a phylogeny tree depict?
2. Which one-do scientists prefer to see on a tree? A polytomy or sister taxon?
3. What
1. What does a phylogeny tree depict? 2. Which one-do scientists prefer to see on a tree? A polytomy or sister taxon? 3. What does it mean if a group is paraphyletic? 4. What is taxonomy? 5. A divergence from a common ancestor on a phylogenetic tree is called a 6. What does it mean if a group is monophyletic? 7. What is the 'magic number' for homoplasies? 8. What is a sister taxon? 9. T/F there are only two groups in a sister taxon. 10. T/F Organisms in a sister taxon share an immediate common ancestor 11. \( T / F \) if less than \( 30 \% \) of sequences are shared in nucleotide sequencing, it's considered similar 12. What is phylogeny? 13. What is the basal taxon? 14. Phylogenic trees are a? a. Hypothesis b. Fact c. Uneducated guess 15. T/F Phylogenic trees show evolutionary relationships 16. T/F a branch point represents a common ancestor 17. T/F Phylogenic trees tell us how long it's been since species diverged 18. How many domains are there above the kingdom classification?


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1. A phylogenetic tree, also known as a phylogeny, is a diagram that depicts the lines of evolutionary descent of different species, organisms, or genes from a common ancestor. 2. phylogeny tool used to explore the evolution of life and describe the
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