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| study of diversity and relationships of organisms |
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study of evolutionary history
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| binomial nomenclature, heirarchial classification |
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| heirarchial classification |
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| taxonomic unit at any level of the heirarchy |
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| hypotheses of evolutionary realtionships |
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| a taxon whose lineage diverged early |
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| groups of organisms that share an immediate common ancestor |
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| represents divergence of two evolutionary lineages |
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| a branch where more than two descendants emerge |
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| monophyletic, paraphyletic, polyphyletic |
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| ancestral species and ALL descendants |
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| ancestral species with SOME descendants |
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| includes groups with different taxa |
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shared ancestral character
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character that originated in ancestor of taxon
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shared derived character
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evolutionary novelty unique to a clade
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| similarity due to shared ancestor |
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| smilarity due to convergent evolution |
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| analogous structures that arose idependently |
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