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| Systematics (it's in the name) |
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| The reconstruction and study of evolutionary relationships. |
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| Distinguished similarities among species that are inherited from the most common ancestor of an entire group. |
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| Shared derived characters |
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| Considered informative in determining evolutionary relationships. |
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| Taxonomic technique used for creating hierarchies of organisms that represent true phylogenic relationship and decent |
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| Evolutionary tree, using similarity and differences. |
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| 1 of 2 or more distinguishable forms of a character |
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| species or higher level groups |
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| To determine if similar traits are ancestral or derived. |
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| outgroup (outgroup comparison is the method) |
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| When a species or a group of species is closely related to, but not a member of, the group under study is designated this, |
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| A system that depicts a hypothesis of evolutionary relationships |
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| Species that share a common ancestor, as indicated by the possession of shared derived characters |
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| A derived character shared by clade members |
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| a shared character state that has not been inherited from a common ancestor exhibiting that character state. |
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