BIOLOGY FINAL EXAM: 18.2 Modern Evolutionary Classification
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Catalan | English |
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| Phylogeny |  The study of evolutionary relationships among organisms |
| Evolutionary Classification | the strategy of grouping organisms together based on their evolutionary history |
| Derived Characters | Characteristics that appear in recent parts of a lineage but not in its older members |
| Cladogram | derived characters construct this |
| Molecular Clcok | use DNA comparison to estimate the length of time that two species have been evolving independently |
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