Which statement correctly explains the relationship between taxonomic categories and phylogenetic classification?
Taxonomic categories are arbitrary and have no relationship to phylogeny.
Taxonomic categories always perfectly match the branching patterns of phylogenetic trees.
Taxonomic categories ideally reflect evolutionary relationships revealed through phylogenetic analysis.
Phylogenetic analysis is used to create taxonomic categories, but they don't necessarily reflect evolutionary relationships.
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Which one of the following has a real existence?
Genus
Species
Family
Order
Two plants can be conclusively said to belong to the same species if they
Can reproduce freely with each other and form seeds
Have more than 90 percent similar genes
Look similar and possess identical secondary metabolites
Have same number of chromosomes.
Cladistics can be defines as
The relationship between sub-species and species
Relationship between two most forward races
Relationship between endangered and surviving species
Method of classification that attempt to interface phylogenetic relationship
Which one of the following animals is correctly matched with its particular named taxonomic category?
Cuttlefish – Mollusca, a class
Humans – Primata, the family
Housefly – Musca, an order
Tiger – tigris, the species
Ascending or descending arrangement of taxonomic categories is known as
Classification
Key
Taxonomy
Hierarchy
The term ‘species’ was coined by
Aristotle
Engler
John Ray
Linnaeus
Which taxonomic category is just above the level of Family?
Genus
Class
Order
Phylum
Huxley is father of
Classical taxonomy
Artificial taxonomy
Neo-taxonomy
Adansonian taxonomy
The genus includes
Tiger
Felis
Cat
Frog
In a taxonomic hierarchy, family is interprepated between
Kingdom and class
Class and order
Order and genus
Class and genus
