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| The study of evolutionary relatedness of various organisms |
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| What are the hierarchial groups in order? |
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| species, genus, family, order, phylum(/division), kingdom, domain |
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| The study of living organisms with relationships between their structures |
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| What is the difference between monophyletic, paraphyletic and polyphyletic groups? |
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Mono- = all of the species which share a common ancestor
Para- = Some of the species that share a common ancestor
Poly- = Do not share a common ancestor |
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A branch of biology dealing with nomenclature
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| What are nodes in a Tree of Life? |
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| What does the root of a Tree of Life represent? |
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| The root = the first ancestor |
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| What do the X and Y axes mean in the Tree of Life? |
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The X axis has no meaning
The Y axis is time |
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| What is the principle of parsimony (Occam's Razor)? |
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| The simpler of two competing theories is the preferred. |
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