EVOLUTIONARY RELATIONSHIPS

Question 1

deals with grouping organisms and determining how they are related

Answer 1

systematics

Question 2

focuses on classifying, naming, and grouping organisms

Answer 2

taxonomy

Question 3

study of determining evol relationships or patterns of descent

Answer 3

phylogenetics

Question 4

portray the evolutionary divergence

Answer 4

phylogeny tree

Question 5

include protein’s amino acid sequence, differences in the gene’s individual nucleotide sequence, or differences in gene arrangements

Answer 5

molecular characteristics

Question 6

examples of ultra-conserving genes

Answer 6

regulatory genes
genes encoding for tRNA
genes involved in ATP synthesis