Question 5

(Multiple Choice)

Which of the following is NOT a principle used when constructing cladograms?


A)All species or higher taxa are placed on tips in a phylogenetic tree.
B)All species or higher taxa are placed on nodes in a phylogenetic tree.
C)Each cladogram branch point should have one or more shared derived characters that are common to all species above the branch point,unless the character is later modified.
D)All shared derived characters appear together only once in a cladogram unless they arose independently during evolution more than once.

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