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Summary BSCI207 Evolutionary Trees

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BSCI 207

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University Of Maryland - College Park

What evolutionary/phylogenic trees are and how to interpret them. Common misconceptions when making and utilizing evolutionary/phylogenic trees.

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Evolutionary Trees

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What are they ?

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visualization of speciation linking all species that ever lived on earth

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aka phylogenic trees

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show link all the way to a common ancestor

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can represent species , populations, individs , genes

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trees are hypothesis and can changed based on new DMA/ fossil evidence

How to read

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tips = taxa =
youngest lineage

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branching points = nades =
splitting via speciation

m -
bottom-common ancestor = oldest lineage

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taxa that share a more common ancestor are more closely related

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clade =
group of organisms that include single ancestor + all its decendants

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imagine making one cut on the tree

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non-clade groups =
poly/paraphyletic
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imagine making two cuts

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trees can show same things differently

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pruning =
simplifying/removing extinct

Anatomy of the Tree

1) outgroup =
lineage outside the clade

A 7

but still related Cless related than
de
· ingroup
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identify by terminal taxa closest

t the base

2) rost = last common ancestor of ALL

M 3) in group = clade of focus

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4) nade = speciation (splitting) event

· 5
5) character state change = when a

·3 s new trait evolves
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6) polytomy = noue w/ 2+ lineages

7) sister youps =
2 clades that are closest relatives to eso Calways the same age

Character = morphological/molecular
8) trait that's distinct/recognizable
9) terminal taxon = doesn't form a clade wanother , extinct or extant

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