Ap Biology: Phylogeny Flashcards

13077034463	Speciation	The formation of a new, distinct species through evolution	0
13077034464	Clades	A group of organisms believed to have evolved from a common ancestor	1
13077034465	Morphology	The study of the forms of living organisms and the relationships between their structures	2
13077034466	Phylogeny	The delevopment and diversification of a group of organisms or of an organism's particular feature	3
13077034467	Fossils	The remains of a prehistoric organism in stone or amber	4
13077034468	Monophyletic	descended from a common ancestor or ancestral group that is not shared with any other group	5
13077034469	Taxonomy	The classification of organisms	6
13077034470	Phylogenetics	The study of evolutionary relationships between groups of organims	7
13077034471	Phylogenetic tree	A diagram showing the hypothesized evolutionary relationships between species	8
13077034472	Analogous structures	Structures that have the same use but have different evolutionary history	9
13077034473	Cladogram	A diagram showing the cladistic relationship between different species	10
13077034474	DNA sequence alignment	A way of arragning the DNA sequences to identify similarites that may be a result of evolutionary relationships	11
13077034475	Homologous Structures	Structures that have anatomical similarities demonstrating decent from a common ancestor	12