Evolutionary Relationships

A phylogenetic tree is a graph that shows the relationship between organisms.

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Which animal is the common ancestor?

• LAMPREY

• SEA BASS

• BALD EAGLE

• ANTELOPE

• ALLIGATOR

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Who published the first Phylogenetic Tree?

• Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

• Charles Darwin

• Augustin Augier

What trait does the sea bass, antelope, bald eagle, and alligator share?

• GIZZARD

• LUNGS

• JAWS

Traits in a phylogenetic tree stay the same throughout the whole tree.

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The branching point is the common ancestor.

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Depicts evolutionary relationships

• cladogram

• ancestor

• anatomical homologies

• phylogenetic tree

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The sequence of heritable changes that occurred among species since the origin of life on Earth

• Diversity

• Fossil record

• Evolutionary history

• Anatomy

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when organisms are descended from a single ancestor

• anatomy

• common ancestry

• evolve

• evolutionary history

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Shows the traits that separate organisms

• cladogram

• phylogenetic tree

• evolutionary origin

• common ancestor

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