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Ap Biology: Phylogeny

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DNA sequence alignment

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Section 1

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DNA sequence alignment

Front

A way of arragning the DNA sequences to identify similarites that may be a result of evolutionary relationships

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Homologous Structures

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Structures that have anatomical similarities demonstrating decent from a common ancestor

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Phylogenetics

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The study of evolutionary relationships between groups of organims

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Clades

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A group of organisms believed to have evolved from a common ancestor

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Cladogram

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A diagram showing the cladistic relationship between different species

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Morphology

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The study of the forms of living organisms and the relationships between their structures

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Phylogeny

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The delevopment and diversification of a group of organisms or of an organism's particular feature

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Speciation

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The formation of a new, distinct species through evolution

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Analogous structures

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Structures that have the same use but have different evolutionary history

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Taxonomy

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The classification of organisms

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Fossils

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The remains of a prehistoric organism in stone or amber

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Monophyletic

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descended from a common ancestor or ancestral group that is not shared with any other group

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Phylogenetic tree

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A diagram showing the hypothesized evolutionary relationships between species

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