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Biology Quizlet #20
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Term | Definition |
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Phylogeny | Evolutionary history of a species |
Clade | A group of species that includes an ancestral species and all its descendants. |
Cladogram | Diagram that shows the evolutionary relationships among a group of organisms |
derived character | trait that appears in recent parts of a lineage, but not in its older members |
molecular clock | Model that uses DNA comparisons to estimate the length of time that two species have been evolving independently |