BIOL 1030- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 163 pages long!)

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Biological Sciences
• Course: BIOL 1030
• Professor: Kevin G.Scott

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Phylogeny: polyphyletic, basal taxa, clade, cladistics, polygamy, common, monophyletic. The vampire squid from hell ancestor: taxonomy is the branch of science concerned with classi cation of organism either living or dead. In other words it is the linnaean hierarchy of classi cation. It may be represented by an evolutionary tree: phylogeny may be represented by a rooted or unrooted phylogenic tree. A rooted phylogenic tree implies a common ancestor: a unrooted phylogenic tree does not show a common ancestor but it hypothesizes on the degree of evolutionary relatedness between taxa, a phylogenic tree has 7 taxaons labeled taxon a . B c taxon g: at every fork in a phylogenic tree is called a node and it is a common ancestor. Thursday, january 11, 2018: sister taxa are closely related. Thursday, january 11, 2018: monophyletic, paraphyletic, polyphyletic, the eukarya 4 supergroup. In the domain eukarya there are 4 super groups: excavata, chromalveolate,