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Evolution - Phylogeny
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2025-2026
What is Speciation? - answer The process by which species
arise, or when one species is divided into more than one
species.

What is a Phylogeny? - answer A relationship showing that
species evolving more recently are close relatives and
species evolving long ago are distant relatives.

What do the lines of a phylogenetic tree represent? -
answer An evolving species.

What do the nodes of a phylogenetic tree represent? -
answer Speciation points.

Can a current species be an ancestor to another current
extant species? - answer NOOOO!!!!!

What is an Outgroup? - answer A related taxon that
branched off earlier in the evolutionary history.

What is a Sister Taxa? - answer A taxa derived from the
same node.

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