Studied by 3 peoplePhylogenetic trees
________ are built using shared characteristics.
Phylogenies
________ based on rRNA genes show that eukaryotes are most closely related to archaea, whereas data from other genes show a closer connection to bacteria.
Linnaean system
The ________, named after Linnaeus, groups related genera into families, families into orders, orders into classes, classes into phyla (singular, phylum).
clade
A(n) ________ is a monophyletic group consisting of an ancestor species and all of its descendants.
evolutionary history
The genome contains information about an organism's ________.
diverse shapes
Creatures with comparable morphologies or DNA sequences are more likely to be linked than organisms with radically ________ and genetic sequences.
Linnaeus
________ not only named species but also classified them into a hierarchy of progressively comprehensive groups.
Categorization
________ should be fully based on evolutionary links* Names are only allocated to groupings that share a common ancestor and all of its descendants under such systems.
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