#Question id: 8692
#Unit 9. Diversity of Life Forms
Which of the following statements is accurate with regard to a phylogeny, as represented by a phylogenetic tree?
#Question id: 8693
#Unit 9. Diversity of Life Forms
Given that phylogenies are based on shared derived characteristics, which of the following traits is useful in generating a phylogeny of species W, X, Y, and Z
#Question id: 8694
#Unit 9. Diversity of Life Forms
Which of the following is (are) problematic when the goal is to construct phylogenies that accurately reflect evolutionary history?
#Question id: 8695
#Unit 9. Diversity of Life Forms
Phylogenetic trees constructed from evidence from molecular systematics are based on similarities in ________.
#Question id: 8696
#Unit 9. Diversity of Life Forms
There is some evidence that reptiles called cynodonts may have had whisker-like hairs around their mouths. If true, then hair is a shared ________.
#Question id: 8697
#Unit 9. Diversity of Life Forms
Use the figure to answer the following question.
Which extinct species should be the best candidate to serve as the outgroup for the clade whose common ancestor occurs at position 2 in the figure?