Phylogeny

Which tetrapod is least related to all others?

• dog

• platypus

• tammar wallaby

• armadillo

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

How many animals on this cladogram have lungs?

• 2

• 3

• 5

• 7

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

How many animals on this cladogram have radial symmetry?

• 1

• 2

• 6

• 9

When using a cladistic approach to systematics, which of the following is considered most important for classification?

• shared derived characters

• shared primitive characters

• overall phenotypic similarity

• analogous primitive characters

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

A branching diagram that represents the proposed phylogeny or evolutionary history of a species or group.

• kinship

• pedigree

• genogram

• cladogram

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Based on the figure, how long ago was the common ancestor of the European Brown Bear and the Asian Brown Bear?

• 4.5 hundreds of thousands of years ago

• 3.5 hundreds of thousands of years ago

• 2.2 hundreds of thousands of years ago

• 1.4 hundreds of thousands of years ago

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Based on the figure, which organism is most closely related to A. forsteri?

• E. ferus

• D. polylepis

• G. gallus

• E. africanus

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Based on the figure, which organism would be considered the outgroup?

• E. ferus

• D. polylepis

• G. gallus

• E. africanus

• A. forsteri

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NGSS.MS-LS3-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Based on the figure, which organism is most closely related to E. africanus?

• E. ferus

• D. polylepis

• G. gallus

• E. africanus

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

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

• genome

• evolution

• clade

• species

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2