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| The evolutionary history of a group of a species |
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| similarities due to shared ancestry |
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| different evoultionary branches may come to resemble one another if they live in similat enviroments and natural selcetion favors similar adaptations |
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| similaritys due to convergent evolution |
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| a disioline of biology that focuses on classifying organisms and determining their evolutionary relationships. |
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| the first system of nameing and classifying species, it is not based on evolutionary relationships. |
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| biologists who identify, name, and classify species |
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| the latin scientific name that is given to a species, first part is the genus, and the second is the species. |
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Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus,
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| each taxonomic unit (Domain,Order) at any level |
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| What biologist traditionaly use to depict hypotheses about the evolutinary history of species |
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| A way to study a clade using a table with the characters on one axis and the Taxa on the other. |
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| a method in systematics were evolutionary desent is the pirmary criterion |
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| a group of species that includes an acestral speceis and descendants. |
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| inclusive group of ancestors and decendents, (it is what a clade is) |
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| Shared derived characters |
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| New traits, the more of these that species have in common the more they are related in a cladistics point of view. |
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| Shared ancesteral characteristics |
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| the original traits present in ancestrial groups, |
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| the group of taxa(Hiererchical groups) being analized in a caldistical study |
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| a species that is from a different clade than the one being studyed, it is important to have outgroups to know what evoulutionary inovations determine the clade that is being studyed. |
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| The quest for the simplest explation for the observed phenomena. |
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