Determining Evolutionary Relationships
This text discusses two options for similarities and building phylogenetic trees.
Topics
- analogy
- basal taxon
- binomial nomenclature
- branch point
- cladistics
- class
- eukaryote-first hypothesis
- family
- gene transfer agent
- GTA
- genome fusion
- genus
- horizontal gene transfer
- HGT
- kingdom
- ma
- ximum parsimony
- mitochondria-first hypothesis
- molecular systematics
- monophyletic group
- nucleus-first hypothesis
- order
- phylogenetic tree
- phylogeny
- phylum
- polytomy
- ring of life
- rooted
- shared ancestral character
- shared derived character
- sister taxa
- systematics
- taxon
- taxonomy
- web of life
- analogous trait
- clade
- cladistic method
- evolutionary relationships
- homologous trait
- homoplasy
- maximum parsimony
- molecular comparison
- shared characteristic
- tree of life
- cladistics system
- evolution