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#Question id: 8698


Use the figure to answer the following question.

If the figure above is an accurate depiction of relatedness, then which of the following should be an accurate statement?

#SCPH28 | Zoology
  1. The entire tree is based on minimum parsimony.
  2. If all species depicted here make up a taxon, this taxon is paraphyletic.
  3. The last common ancestor of species B and C occurred more recently than the last common ancestor of species D and E.
  4. Species A is the direct ancestor of both species B and species C.