One Day After a Biology Class Four of Your Friends

question 53

Multiple Choice

One day after a biology class four of your friends argue about the difference between phylogeny and systematics.Which friend is right?

• A)Friend A states that systematics and phylogenies are really the same,one is more recent than the other,but basically they are the same.
• B)Friend B says that systematics is the same as cladistics and cladistics is reconstructing clades,which ultimately lead to the development of phylogenies.
• C)Friend C argues that systematics is the actual collecting and cataloguing of specimens into museums that can be used later by scientists to construct clades and phylogenies.
• D)Friend D says that the way she remembers is that systematics is the reconstruction and study of phylogenies.

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