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College Evolution
What is phylogeny?
  1. life history of an organism
  2. branch of biology concerned with the relationship between vegetation and rainfal
  3. evolutionary history of a group of organisms
  4. branch of biology concerned with the relationship between plants and animals.
Grade 12 Evolution
What is phylogeny?
  1. history of evolution of organisms (tree diagram)
  2. order of taxa
  3. two-part key used to identify organisms by their physical features
  4. the science of classifying and naming organisms
Grade 7 Evolution
College Evolution
Which of the following traits are NOT use when constructing phylogenies?
  1. Fossils
  2. Morphological
  3. Derived
  4. Behavorial
  5. Parental
Grade 9 Evolution
What is the evolutionary history of an organism or group?
  1. natural selection
  2. classification
  3. phylogeny
  4. taxonomy
Grade 9 Evolution
A group that is limited to a common ancestor and all its descendants is called a
  1. taxon.
  2. tree of life.
  3. phylogeny.
  4. monophyletic group.
Grade 7 Taxonomy
Homo sapiens, the scientific name for a modern human, is an example of
  1. a domain name.
  2. a kingdom name.
  3. binomial nomenclature.
  4. phylogeny.
College Evolution
What is cladistics?
  1. A method of hypothesization using shared derived traits to determine an evolutionary history
  2. The observation of all of the descendants of a particular ancestor
  3. The analysis of a taxon that contains some members that don't share a common ancestor
  4. The use of common ancestors to establish a phylogeny between one or more derived species