Cladistics

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• What are some examples of clades?
• What are some examples of cladistics?
• Are fungi closer to animals than plants?
• What does a phylogenetic tree show?
• What is the role of a cladogram?
• Why are dolphins considered Ungulates?
• What is the "missing link"?
• Are birds mammals? Why, or why not?
• What is synapomorphy?
• What are the features of a cladogram?
• What is true about two organisms that share the same common ancestor?
• Are modern birds reptiles?
• The classification level in which similar genera are grouped is called a what?
• What is cladistics used for?
• What is cladistics in biology?
• What does cladistics focus on?
• What is cladistics used to reveal?
• How do scientists classify using cladistics?
• How are cladistics and cladograms related?
• How is cladistics different from Linnaean taxonomy?
• Is residual volume a synonym for dead space volume? If not, then why?