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Animals Lecture 2-11
Semester Test Revision
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Phylogeny | The evolutionary history of a group of organisms |
| Fossils | The preserved remnants or impressions left by organisms that lived in the past |
| Homologies | Similar characteristics due to shared ancestry - The more points of resemblance that two complex structures have, the less likely it is that they evolved independently (without a common origin). |
| Analogy | Similar characteristics due to convergent evolution |
| Convergent Evolution | (When two organisms from different evolutionary lineage experience similar environmental pressures and develop analogous structures- also known as homplasies) |
| Taxonomy | An ordered division of organisms into categories based on similarities and differences. |
| Phylogenetic trees | Phylogenetic trees- display species grouped into increasingly broad taxonomic categories in the order of family, order, class, phylum, kingdom and domain. |