Determining Evolutionary Relationships

Determining Evolutionary Relationships

This text discusses two measures of similarity and building phylogenetic trees.

Topics

  • analogous structure
  • binomial nomenclature
  • branch point
  • clade
  • cladistics
  • class
  • domain
  • family
  • genus
  • kingdom
  • maximum parsimony
  • molecular systematics
  • monophyletic group
  • order
  • phylogenetic tree
  • phylogeny
  • phylum
  • rooted
  • shared ancestral character
  • shared derived character
  • sister taxa
  • species
  • systematics
  • taxon
  • taxonomy