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Rooted |
Describomg a phylogenetic tree with a single ancestral lineage to which all organisms represented in the diagram |
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Shared ancestral character |
A character on a phylogenetic branch that is shared by a particular clade |
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Shared derived character |
A character on a phylogenetic tree that is shared only by a certain clade of organisms |
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Sister taxa |
Two lineages that diverged from the same branch point |
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Species |
The most specific category of classification |
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Systematics |
The science of determining the evolutionary relationdhips of organisms |
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Taxonomy |
The science of classifying organisms |
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Taxon |
A single level in the taxonomic classification system |
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List the different levels of the taxonomic system. |
Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species |
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Describe maximum parsimony |
Hypothesizes that events occurred in the simplest, most obvious way, and the pathway of evolution probably includes the fewest major events thay coincide with the evidence at hand. |