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

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

A(n) ________blank is a group of related charactersMultiple Choicerecordfieldentityattribute

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

Similarity resulting from common ancestry is known as…a) homology.b) convergent evolution.c) divergent evolution.d) heterogeny.

Among mammals, the presence of lungs is a(n) Blank______.Multiple choice question.shared derived character, representing an evolutionary reversal to an ancestral character stateshared derived character because it likely evolved in the most recent common ancestor of mammalsancestral character because it is found only in mammalian vertebratesancestral character because it is present in other vertebrate animals and likely evolved prior to the common ancestor of mammals