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Phylogenetics and Reading the Tree of Life — Homework
Review clades, nodes, and how to read a cladogram before answering.
- 1.Define a clade.
- 2.Define sister taxa.
- 3.Explain why rotating a tree's branches at a node does not change any actual evolutionary relationship.
- 4.Explain why the left-to-right order of species at the tips of a tree does not mean the rightmost species are "more evolved."
- 5.Explain in three or four sentences what kind of evidence scientists use today to build phylogenetic trees.
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