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Chapter 17
Section 2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| the classification of living organisms in terms of their natural relationships; it icnludes describing, naming, and classifying the organisms | systematics |
| the analysis of evolutionary, or ancestral, relationships between taxa | phylogenetics |
| a branching diagram that models the relationships by ancestry between different species or other taxonomic groups | phlogenetic diagram |
| a phylogenetic classification system that uses shared derived characters and ancestry as the sole criterion for grouping taxa | cladistics |
| a feature that is shared by all members of a particular group of organisms | shared character |
| a feature that evolved only within a particular taxonomic group | derived character |
| a taxonomic grouping that includes only a single ancestor and all of its descendants | clade |
| a diagram that is based on patterns of shared, derived traits and that shows the evolutionary relationships between groups of organisms | cladogram |