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| Aim to understand evolutionary relationships; branching diagram specifying hypothesis on how groups of taxa are related to each other; examples tree; cladogram |
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| Taxa whose relationships are being explained by the phylogeny |
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| Common ancestor of two related taxa |
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| Pair of taxa that share a common ancestor |
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| Common ancestor and all its descendents |
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| Similarities arising from common ancestry used to group taxa; synapomorphies and symplesiomorphies |
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| Shared, derived trait (homology) |
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| Shared ancestral trait (homology) |
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| Aka analogies; similarities between two or more taxa that have evolved independently (convergent evolution) |
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| Aim to organize relationships into hierarchical categories, mainly to aid in communication |
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