Phylogeny

AP Biology· difficulty 3/5

A clade is

  • A

    An ancestor and SOME of its descendants (a paraphyletic group)

  • B

    An ancestor and ALL of its descendants (a monophyletic group)

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  • C

    Two species sharing convergent traits (a polyphyletic group)

  • D

    A lineage and its sister group combined (a sister-clade group)

Explanation

Monophyletic groups include only descendants of one common ancestor. Modern systematics aims for clades over arbitrary groupings.

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