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a group of families is called realitives

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What are clades A clade is a group of organisms consisting of a common ancestor and all its descendants But doesn't every living thing have a common ancestor Please help Thanks?

Yes, all living things are just groups of organisms consisting of common ancestors and all their decendant's. Clades is just a word that means a group of organisms.


What is a group of species that includes a single common ancestor and all descendents?

Unless life evolved multiple times on Earth all species share a common ancestor with each other. The list is for all practical purposes limitless. Humans and wolves Guinee Pigs and Wales Cock Roaches and Mice and so on.....


Humans and gorillas have one different amino acid in their hemoglobin sequence. What does this say about the evolution of these two species?

Answer this question… They probably have a recent common ancestor.


Why do scientists think that all animals come from a common ancestor?

All animals share the same genetic code, the same, or very similar biochemical pathways. All animals share physiological similarities from the cell to the epidermis. All animals share behavioral similarities. Answer All animals have similar traits. All have the same sorts of cells (no cell walls, centrioles, only small vacuoles if any) for example. This is evidence that all animals have a common ancestor. It fits the model of animal common ancestry, it fits the hypothesis. Since animals breed using DNA as a hereditary material, then their offspring are capable of inheriting traits. If the common ancestor of all of a group has a trait, then we can reasonably assume that all its descendents should inherit that trait. And that works in reverse too. If all members of a vast group share a character, then it is violently possible that they all inherited it from a common ancestor. Take the homology of limb bones of mammals to illustrate this principle in a tiny subset of mammals or the shell-possession of molluscs as another homology (yes, all molluscs have shells - even squid). It is easy to see that mammals should all have a common ancestor. It is (relatively) easy to hypothesise that all molluscs have a common ancestor. What about all animals, ALL animals? We have forgotten, by the way, the most modern way to examine relationships - DNA analysis. DNA analysis shall confirm that all animals form a clade, a monophyly, a single group arising from a common ancestor. That must be the greatest vindication of the animalian hypothesis for biologists - that DNA can confirm that all animals have a common ancestor.


What trait shared with a common ancestor?

Homologous structures

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