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What is synapomorphies
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a shared derived trait
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nails instead of claws
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what is cladistics or Clade
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a group of taxa tha share an amorphic trait
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apomorphic
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a derived trait
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Character
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a morphological feature or trait
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Digits on a limb
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Character State
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a specific variation of the character
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humans have five horses have one
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cladogram
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Branching diagram shoing the relationships between taxa
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homology
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characteristics shared as a result of common ancestry
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Homoplasy
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characters that are similar but not the result of common ancestry
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node
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a branching pint on a cladogram defined by synamorphies
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Plesiomorphy
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a primitive trait
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4 limbs
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symplesiomorphy
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a shared primitive trait
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nails
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