Only shared derived characters are instructive in determining evolutionary relationships among taxa because Blank______.Multiple choice question.they are essential to life and therefore may not be changed over the course of evolutionthey indicate recent evolutionary changes and are therefore exhibited in closely related taxathey are retained from a distant common ancestor and are therefore exhibited by all members of a cladethey are the most prevalent characters exhibited by members of a clade

Derived characters are Blank______.Multiple choice question.inherited from a common ancestor and are the result of convergent evolutionshared with the most recent common ancestor of a group, but not with prior ancestorsshared by two species derived from different ancestorsshared with the most recent common ancestor and prior ancestors of the group

What term describes the re-construction of evolutionary relationships between species, as determined by shared derived characters?Multiple choice question.ParsimonyHierarchical classificationTaxonomyCladistics

A similarity that arose prior to the most recent common ancestor of a group is called a(n) Blank______.Multiple choice question.homoplasmic charactercharacter statederived characterancestral character

What types of characters are most useful for creating phylogenetic trees? Please select all correct answers.Multiple answers:Multiple answers are accepted for this questionSelect one or more answers and submit. For keyboard navigation...SHOW MOREaShared derived characterbSymplesiomorphycSynapomorphydAncestral charactereCharacter matrix

Which of the following statements is true for all of the species that come after a branch point in a cladogram?Multiple choice question.They will no longer need an outgroup.They will share at least one shared derived character.They will share at least two shared derived characters.They do not share any derived characters.