BIO 1130 Lecture Notes - Carl Linnaeus, Heterotroph, Chordate
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A cluster of closely related species that are each adaptively specialized to a specific habitat or food source. A character that is not in the same state as the outgroup. Due to convergent evolution, similar structures with similar functions, but species are not closely related. Derived character within a group, something changes in the organism. Linnaeus, made many mistakes: by the time of the roman empire that extended over all of. A derived trait that is unique to a given terminal group. A name consisting of two: linnaeus found a names : a generic name and a specific name. Structures that retain similar functions but are not a result of common ancestry; due to the adaptation to similar environments. A distinction, for a given character, between an ancestral state and a derived state. When a character that is unique to a taxon group reverts to more ancestral level in a taxon within this group.
