One day after a biology class four of your friends argue about the difference between phylogeny and systematics.Which friend is right?
A) Friend A states that systematics and phylogenies are really the same,one is more recent than the other,but basically they are the same.
B) Friend B says that systematics is the same as cladistics and cladistics is reconstructing clades,which ultimately lead to the development of phylogenies.
C) Friend C argues that systematics is the actual collecting and cataloguing of specimens into museums that can be used later by scientists to construct clades and phylogenies.
D) Friend D says that the way she remembers is that systematics is the reconstruction and study of phylogenies.
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Q11: Systematists often use DNA sequencing in _,the
Q12: Q13: The principle of _ favors the hypothesis Q14: The study and reconstruction of phylogenies is Q15: A derived character that is shared by Q17: Characteristics that have arisen in organisms as Q18: The biological specialty that deals with the Q19: A phylogenetically-based taxonomy is important not only Q20: Characteristics between the branch points of a Q21:
A)evolution.
B)systematics.
C)taxonomy.
D)taxidermy.
E)cladistics.
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