What is the role of a cladogram?

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Linica Uday
Nov 9, 2016

Cladograms are diagrams used in cladistics to show a line of organisms and how closely related they are to other animals.

Explanation:

Traditionally cladograms are largely based on morphological characters.
DNA and RNA sequencing data and computational phylogenetics are now very commonly used in the generation of cladograms.

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