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Why is DNA of cats and dogs more similar than DNA of cats and hamsters?
Cats and dogs have a common ancestor that is more recent than the common ancestor of cats and hamsters.
Is a daffodil a type of protist?
No. A Daffodil is a flowering dicotyledeonous plant, not a protist. It is a more complex organism than the protist, with many many more cells than a protist has (which is a single cellular organism) to make what it really is.
What does a branch point in a cladogram represent?
The branch point in a cladogram represents a specific ancestor that is separated into two or more species. For example a leopard and a house cat share a common ancestor. A similar example is that a wolf shares a common ancestor with the leopard's and house cat's ancestor but the wolf's ancestor lived longer than the leopard's and house cat's ancestor. Scientists use something called cladistics to determine the one common ancestor that multiple species have in common.
What is phylogenetic relatedness?
Recency of common ancestry. Species A is more closely related to species B than to species C if (and only if) the last common ancestor of A and B lived more recently than the last common ancestor of A and C. The concept can be applied not just to species but also to organism, populations, or genes.
Is there more than one kind of mosquito that carries protozae protist?
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What does monophyletic group consist of?
A group of species that consists of a common ancestor and all of its descendants (also referred to as a clade).
What is a group of species that share a common ancestor called?
A group of people who have a common ancestor may be called a "line of descent." In other contexts, a clan or a tribe may have, or claim to have, a common ancestor.Also, it's called "monophyletic" (all members of a designated group are descendants of a common ancestor) members are more closely related to each other than to any member of any other clade.
Is this sentence true all protist have more than one cell?
yes
What is the order in which humans evolved?
I think you're looking for a monkey-chimp-human sort of answer. However there is not a order in which humans evolved (and are evolving). Humans are most closely related to chimpanzees, followed by gorillas and then orangutangs.Not Orangutang->Gorilla->Chimp->Human.What I am saying is that the common ancestor of chimps and humans was around more recently than the common ancestor of humans and gorillas, which was more recent than the common ancestor of orangutangs and humans.After the close relatives you get monkeys then lemurs. Followed by rodents and then the rest of the mammals.
Why are monkeys your relatives?
Monkeys aren't your relatives. However; modern primates, including humans, share a common ancestor. For that matter; depending on how far back you want to go, you share a common ancestor with grass too.
What animal in the food chain is more of a threat than jaguars?
The malaria protist kills vastly more people than jaguars do.
How are nucleotide sequences used to put organisms in evolutionary order?
When comparing nucleotide sequences in organisms, we find that the organisms that have less differences in their nucleotide sequences are closer related in the evolutionary tree. By this we mean that the common ancestor from which these two organisms evolved is more modern than the ancestor they might share with an organism that shows more difference in the DNA sequencing. Example: the chimps and humans share a common ancestor that is relatively modern because the difference in their nucleotide sequences is just about 1% but the differences between the nucleotide sequence of humans and fish shows lots of differences which shows their common ancestor y much older than the one with chimps.
