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| points where lineages split, ancestral ineage divides into two or more derived lineages |
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| represents poplulation through time |
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| node with more than 2 derived lineages (branches) |
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| ancestor and all lineages |
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| ancestor and all descendants (clade) |
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| traits used to show evolutionary relationships |
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| similarities resulting from inheritance from common ancestor |
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derived- different from ancestral state (descent with modification)
shared- more than 1 taxa |
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| ancestral character state |
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| derived character state in 1+ descendents |
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apomorphy shared by at least 2 descendents
-used to infer relationships
-define clades |
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| derived character in only 1 taxon |
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| similarities not a result of common ancestor |
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| distantly related taxa show similarities because of a reversal to ancestral (original) state |
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| distantly relatd taxa that evolve similar traits due to similar environments. |
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