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Chapter 26. Phylogeny and the Tree of Life. What you need to know:. The taxonomic categories and how they indicate relatedness. How systematics is used to develop phylogenetic trees. The three domains of life including their similarities and their differences.
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Chapter 26 Phylogeny and the Tree of Life
What you need to know: • The taxonomic categories and how they indicate relatedness. • How systematics is used to develop phylogenetic trees. • The three domains of life including their similarities and their differences.
Systematics: classifying organisms and determining their evolutionary relationships Taxonomy (classification) Systematics Phylogenetics (evolutionary history)
Tools used to determine evolutionary relationships: • Fossils • Morphology (homologous structures) • Molecular evidence (DNA, amino acids) Who is more closely related? Animals and fungi are more closely related than either is to plants.
Taxonomy: science of classifying and naming organisms • Binomial nomenclature (Genus species) Naming system developed by Carolus Linnaeus.
Taxonomic ranks are species, genus, family, order, class, phylum, kingdom, domain, etc • REMEMBER!! • Dear King Philip Came Over For Good Spaghetti • Dear King Philip Crossed Over Five Great Seas • Dear King Philip Came Over From Germany Singing • Your own???
Phylogenetic Tree • Branching diagram that shows evolutionary history of a group of organisms
Leopard Turtle Hair Salamander • Clade= A clade is a grouping that includes a common ancestor and all the descendants (living and extinct) of that ancestor. • Shared derived characteristics areused to construct cladograms Taxa- category of organisms Amniotic egg Tuna Four walking legs Lamprey Hinged jaws Lancelet (outgroup) Vertebral column Cladogram
a taxon is always most closely related to its The earliest diverging group within a clade A division into many members
A monophyletic taxon is defined as one that includes the most recent common ancestor of a group of organisms, and all of its descendents Monophyletic, paraphyletic, and polyphyletic groups A paraphyletic taxon as one that includes the most recent common ancestor, but not all of its descendents A polyphyletic taxon is defined as one that does not include the common ancestor of all members of the taxon
Constructing a phylogenetic tree Taxon by character matrix table A 0 indicates a character is absent; a 1 indicates that a character is present.
Various tree layouts Circular (rooted) tree Unrooted tree Rooted tree
Tree of Life • 3 Domains: Bacteria, Archaea, Eukarya