BIOL 1111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Monophyly, Maximum Likelihood Estimation, Polyphyly

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Chapter 26: phylogeny and the tree of life. A clade is equivalent to a monophyletic group: monophyletic: pertaining to a group of taxa that consists of a common ancestor and all of its descendants. Process of evolution: the evolutionary mechanisms described in unit four. Pattern of evolution: observations of evolution"s products over time. Carolus linnaeus= binomial system when identifying species. Some difficulties in aligning linnaean classification with phylogeny have led some systematists to propose that classification be based entirely on evolutionary relationships. + what we can and cannot learn from the phylogenetic tree. We can learn the hypothesis about evolutionary relationships. Through the branches, we are able to tell the sister taxa and other classifications of species. They are intended to show patterns of descent, not phenotypic similarity. We cannot necessarily infer the ages of the taxa or branch points shown in a tree.

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