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According to the evolutionary tree in Figure 4.37, which is more closely related to rodents: shrews...Problem 2Q:
According to the evolutionary tree in Figure 4.37, which lived earlier: the last common ancestor of...Problem 3Q:
Sketch a version of the tree in Figure 4.37 in which whales, hippos, pigs, perissodactyls,...Problem 4Q:
In the tree in Figure 4.37, identify a monophyletic group to which the aardvark belongs. Who else is...Problem 5Q:
What is a synapomorphy?Problem 6Q:
High-crowned teeth that are well suited for grazing are found in some rodents, rabbits and hares,...Problem 7Q:
Assuming the four living species in Figure 4.38 evolved from their common ancestor without...Problem 8Q:
The four fish in Figure 4.39 evolved from a common ancestor with some homoplasy. What are the...Problem 9Q:
What is homoplasy? Why does homoplasy make it more challenging to estimate evolutionary history?Problem 10Q:
Referring to the information in Figure 4.10, explain why the bones found in bird wings and bat wings...Problem 11Q:
What is the difference between a molecular phylogeny reconstructed by parsimony versus maximum...Problem 12Q:
Why is it seldom possible to exhaustively check all possible trees for a suite of taxa? What are...Problem 13Q:
A clade in a phylogeny bears a label at its base giving a bootstrap support of 97%. What does this...Problem 14Q:
Examine the three primate phylogenies shown in Figure 4.40. Do the three phylogenies show the same...Problem 15Q:
Historically, some scientists hypothesized that dogs are derived from wolves. Other scientists...Sample Solutions for this Textbook
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