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| Naming and dividing organisms into groups |
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| classifying organisms and determining their evolutionary relationship |
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| evolutionary history of a group of species |
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| a group used in classifying an organism |
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| single speciman in a scientific collection which serves as the standard of that species |
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Kingdom
Phyla
Class
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Family
Genus
Species |
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| Has to have a biological similarity such as being able to mate with each other |
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| Similarity due to common ancestry |
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| Similarity due to convergent evolution |
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| group of species that include common ancestor and all of its descendants |
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| represent most common ancestor or the branching point between two species |
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| contain species and most recent common ancestor |
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| do not contain all the descendants of a common ancestor |
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| groups species that do not contain a common ancestor |
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| homologies that occured recently that not all groups have |
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| traits that all common ancestor and all descendants have |
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| phylogenetic tree that has the least amount of changes |
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| when more then two lineages emerge from an ancestor (more then two branches from one node) |
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| certain rules about how DNA evolves over time |
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| most evolutionary change in genes and proteins has no effect on fitness |
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| genes that are homologous between species |
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| more then one copy of a gene is found in the genome |
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