Biology 1001A Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Multicellular Organism, Agnatha, Phylogenetic Tree

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Only 1. 2 million of these species have been named (10% of all the species). Other research groups believe there are over a 100 million species. There are certain traits that all organisms share, these are called universal traits. We all inherited these traits from luca. No matter what the organism is, codons will always code for the same amino acid. (for example, the codon aga will code for the same amino acid in foxes, cabbages, humans etc. ) Homology: the relationship between organisms due to having shared ancestry. **each branching point is where a speciation event occurred** Rendezvous 0: humans: how far back in time do we need to go to find the person we all descended from, an estimate of 3,000 years. We are not descended from chimps, but we both come from the same ancestor (like cousins). Notice: we do not need to know the number of years at any rendezvous point.

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