Phylogeny and Cladistics

________________ is the evolutionary history of a group of related organisms.

• Phylogeny

• Biodiversity

• Ecology

• Physiology

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-3

The evolutionary history of a group of related organisms can be represented by this

• food web

• cladogram

• cladistic narrative

• phylogeny graph

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NGSS.MS-LS4-3

This is a group of organisms that includes an ancestor and all of its lineal descendants.

• genome

• evolution

• clade

• species

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

This is a method of comparing traits in related species to determine hypothetical evolutionary relationships.

• cladistics

• pneumonics

• phylogeny

• evolutionary analysis

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Which of these is a clade?

• blue only

• green only

• red only

• red and blue

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

This phylogenetic tree shows that all these organisms are metazoa (animals)

• true

• false

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-3

Which tetrapod is least related to all others?

• dog

• platypus

• tammar wallaby

• armadillo

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Which animal was the earliest to evolve?

• coelacanth

• dog

• turkey

• human

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

How many animals on this cladogram have lungs?

• 2

• 3

• 5

• 7

How many animals on this cladogram have radial symmetry?

• 1

• 2

• 6

• 9