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to group organism together base on their evolutionary history to group organism together base on their evolutionary history

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the main goal of cladistics is to place species in the order in which they descended from a common ancester

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What is an out group?

An out-group is the organism in a cladogram that is the starting point and usually does not have any common characteristics with the other organisms in the cladogram.


What is the point where two objects break away on a cladogram called?

Breaking point


What is the main purpose of a cladogram?

To show evolutionary relationships based on traits


What is the difference between a phylogram and a cladogram?

A phylogram is a whiole tree of organisms.The bottom has the first organism and each branch is another organism. A cladogram is like one line and a few other lines come up from that main line. Not as many organisms in a cladogram than a phlogram.


What is a branching diagram showing evolutionary change?

a Cladogram


How does a cladogram different from a pedigree?

A cladogram shows hypothesized phylogeny.


Does the cladogram organized by genetic information agree with the cladogram organized by anatimical features?

No; there are discrepancies between gentic cladogram and phenothopic cladorgram


Evolutionary relationships are displayed in a branching diagram called a?

cladogram.


What is filled in on a cladogram?

Derived traitsDerived traitsDerived traitswhich of the following are filling in on a cladogram?


How do starfish fit into the cladogram of invertebrates?

A starfish fits into the cladogram because invertebrates are being with exoskeletons or no skeletons at all it fits into the invertebrate part of the cladogram


How do scientist use DNA to create a branching daigram?

I think you mean a Cladogram they trace species origins back and find common point and every time they do, they connect them on the line, creating something that looks like "branches" google "cladogram"


Diagram based on derived characters?

Derived characters can be used to construct a cladogram. A cladogram is a diagram that shows the evolutionary relationships among a group of organisms. A cladogram is basically an evolutionary tree, much like a family tree.