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Zoology
Chapter 7 Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Nomenclature | The study of the naming of organisms in the fashion that reflects their evolutionary relationships |
| Monophyletic Group | A group of organisms descended from a single ancestor |
| Evolutionary Systematics | the study of the classification of, and evolutionary relationships among animals. (Construct evolutionary pathways) |
| Phylogenetic Systematics | Study of the phylogenetic relationships among organisms in which true and false characteristics are differentiated. |
| Ancestral Characters | Attributes of species that are old and have been retained from a common ancestor. |
| Synapomorphy | |
| Biological Species Concept | defined as a group of populations in which genes are actually, or potentially exchanged through interbreeding |
| Phylogenetic Species Concept |