Relier Pairs Systematics MatchingVersion en ligne Exam 1 definitions systematics par Emma Fuller 1 classification 2 evolutionary 3 phylogeny 4 biodiversity 5 taxonomy 6 cladistics 7 systematics 8 competing philosophies Taxa should share recent common ancestry AND morphological similarity, may generate some paraphyletic taxa Assigning organisms to hierarchical groups number of species, genre, etc evolutionary history All taxa should be clades, monophyletic AND holophyletic the naming of groups of organisms different schools of thought that promote different theories, principles, or methods Study of diversification and relationships 1 analogous 2 homologous 3 clade 4 apomorphic 5 monophyletic 6 synapomorphic 7 plesiomorphic 8 polyphyletic 9 symplesiomorphic 10 paraphyletic 11 holophyletic 12 grade 13 homoplasy 14 autapomorphic A derived characteristic A lineage of organisms that is derived from a single common ancestor and contains ALL descendants A lineage including all descendants of a single common ancestor A shared, ancestral characteristic A group of organisms that shares similarity but not by shared common ancestry or excluding some descendants A lineage including some but not all descendants of a single common ancestor An unshared, derived characteristic Similar due to common function, not based on shared common ancestry A lineage with a single common ancestor A lineage or trait found in independent lineages shared, derived characteristic An analogous trait or character, such as skin flaps for gliding An ancestral characteristic Similar based on shared common ancestry 1 horotely 2 cladogram 3 tachytely 4 parallel evolution 5 convergent evolution 6 DKPCOFGS 7 dendrogram 8 phylogram 9 bradytely a branching diagram that shows how similar a group of things are to each other The evolution of homologous characteristics into new forms/phenotypes in the same clade. “Descent with modification” The evolution of analogous characteristics in distantly related clades Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species a diagram that shows the evolutionary relationships between species, and is also known as a phylogenetic tree. a branching diagram showing the cladistic relationship between a number of species a biological term that describes a normal or average rate of evolution for a group of plants or animals evolution that is very slow or has stopped evolution at a relatively rapid rate tending to result in speedy differentiation and fixation of new types