Question 62

(Multiple Choice)

Use the following two diagrams (A and B)to answer the questions below.
Use the following two diagrams (A and B)to answer the questions below.     A: Morphological phylogeny.     B: Molecular phylogeny. -What is true of the deuterostomes in the molecular phylogeny (B)that is not true in the traditional phylogeny (A)? A)Deuterostomia is a clade. B)To maintain Deuterostomia as a clade, some phyla had to be removed from it. C)Deuterostomia now includes the Acoela. D)It is actually a grade, rather than a clade. E)It diverged from the rest of the Bilateria earlier than did the Acoela.
A: Morphological phylogeny.
Use the following two diagrams (A and B)to answer the questions below.     A: Morphological phylogeny.     B: Molecular phylogeny. -What is true of the deuterostomes in the molecular phylogeny (B)that is not true in the traditional phylogeny (A)? A)Deuterostomia is a clade. B)To maintain Deuterostomia as a clade, some phyla had to be removed from it. C)Deuterostomia now includes the Acoela. D)It is actually a grade, rather than a clade. E)It diverged from the rest of the Bilateria earlier than did the Acoela.
B: Molecular phylogeny.
-What is true of the deuterostomes in the molecular phylogeny (B)that is not true in the traditional phylogeny (A)?


A)Deuterostomia is a clade.
B)To maintain Deuterostomia as a clade, some phyla had to be removed from it.
C)Deuterostomia now includes the Acoela.
D)It is actually a grade, rather than a clade.
E)It diverged from the rest of the Bilateria earlier than did the Acoela.

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