Paraphyletic - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

A phylogenetic tree is a hypothesis about the evolutionary relationships among organisms based on available anatomical and/or molecular data. True or False? - True Refer to the phylogenetic tree above. The grouping that includes Salamanders and Caecilians is: - Paraphyletic. Refer to the phylogenetic tree above. The grouping that includes Turtles, Lizards and snakes, Crocodiles and alligators, Birds, and Bats is: - Monophyletic. Refer to the phylogenetic tree provided. The grouping that in...

BIOL 1P92 FINAL Verified Questions With Answers | LATEST UPDATE Plastids originated from which prokaryotes? Cyanobacteria Are protists a monophyletic group? why or why not? No, they are paraphyletic because they have no specific common ancestor Which protists are most closely related to plants? Charophytes Amoebas habitat Marine, freshwater, soil How are protists differentiated into groups? Classified by habitat and motility Plankton swimming or floating protists, bacteria, vir...

Which of the following are multicellular and often form underwater forest in coastal areas with cold water? Correct Answer-brown algae Which of these organisms is NOT a photosynthetic protist? Correct Answer-Ciliates Which of the following is heterotrophic Correct Answer-Giardia Which of the following does NOT apply to green algae? Correct Answer-Vascular What is FALSE about diatoms? Correct Answer-Cause red tides DNA sequences show that red algae and green algae share more derive...

fish correct answers singular and Plural for a single species fishes correct answers plural for more than one species about how many well characterized/described species correct answers about 28,000 about how many species are estimated correct answers about 32,000-35,000 how much of water on earth is salt water? correct answers 97.5% How much water on Earth is freshwater? correct answers 2.5% of the freshwater how much is in liquid form on the surface? correct answers 0.3% A...

What is biodiversity? all of the diversity/variety of life on Earth What are systematics? study of evolutionary relationships between organism(s). What is taxonomy? the science of naming organisms. What is a taxon? a named group of organisms What is classification? assigning organisms to meaningful, hierarchical groups What is phylogeny? evolutionary history of an organism(s); where things originate; ancestry What are the 2 goals of binomial nomenclature? 1. Avoid ambiguity when communicat...

BSC-116-001 Chapter 26 Exam Questions Correctly Answered. Animals that possess homologous structures probably _____. A. have increased genetic diversity B. evolved from the same ancestor C. are not related D. are the result of convergent evolution E. are the result of similar environmental pressures in different evolutionary lineages - CORRECT ANSWER B. evolved from the same ancestor Homologous structures are similar because of common ancestry. By definition a clade is _____. ...

Heterotrophic Protists? Are a paraphyletic grouping of organisms Which combinations of phylum and description are correct? -Echinodermata: bilateral symmetrical larvae and pentaradially symmetrical adult -Nematoda: pseudocoelomates with both parasitic and free living representatives -Cnidaria: radially symmetrical with cnidocytes -Platyhelminthes: parasitic and free-living acoelomates Which characteristics are found in all chordates: -notochord: structural support, skeleton, -dorsal, hollow ne...

BIOL 1P92 FINAL Verified Questions With Answers | LATEST UPDATE Plastids originated from which prokaryotes? Cyanobacteria Are protists a monophyletic group? why or why not? No, they are paraphyletic because they have no specific common ancestor Which protists are most closely related to plants? Charophytes Amoebas habitat Marine, freshwater, soil How are protists differentiated into groups? Classified by habitat and motility Plankton swimming or floating protists, bacteria, vir...

Biology 116 Exam 1 Study Guide Taxonomy - Ans:-science of describing, naming, and classifying organisms Phylogeny - Ans:-evolutionary history of a species or group of related species What is the taxonomy scale? - Ans:-Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species What are the three domains? - Ans:-1) Bacteria 2) Eukaryotes 3) Archaea What is evolution? - Ans:-1) descent with modification 2) change in alleles over time allele - Ans:-alternate form of a gene natural selec...

Biology 1108 final exam Questions and Answers 100% Pass Monophyletic Group - Correct Answer ️️ -includes all the descendants of a common ancestor, and its considered a natural grouping of organisms based on a shared ancestry. Paraphyletic Group - Correct Answer ️️ -some (not all) of descendants of a common ancestor Polyphyletic Group - Correct Answer ️️ -organisms from distinct lineages based on shared characters, but no common ancestor Homologies - Correct Answer ️️ -si...