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

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

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

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

Two species may independently evolve similar characters when adapting to similar environments rather than through inheritance from a common ancestor. This process is known as Blank______.Multiple choice question.parallel evolutionconvergent evolutioncoevolutiondivergent evolution