Cladogram Characteristics

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The cladogram represents living spaces and their relatedness to one another. The cladogram has five taxa in the ingroup that are defined as huts, cabins, houses, buildings and skyscrapers. The out-group is the tipi within the cladogram shown at the beginning of the cladogram to represent a trait shared by all. The cladogram represents the traits in order as living space, furniture, electricity, and height of more than one floor within the structure. These traits categorize the taxa within the cladogram. The traits were chosen for the cladogram present in the taxa of the tipi, hut, cabin, house, building and skyscraper were chosen to relate the taxas to one another beginning with the trait of living space shared by all. The number reduces

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