Chapter 24.3, Problem 1SB

Summary Introduction

To review:

The systematists utilize the homologous characters for their phylogenetic analysis.

Introduction:

Organisms that share similar features, their genome tend to be more closely related than the organisms having dissimilar characters. There are some organisms having similar features but do not share the same evolutionary relationship. The phenotypic similarities that are involved independently in different lineages are called homoplasy or analogy.