What Assigns Records to One of a Predefined Set of Classes

question 20

Multiple Choice

What assigns records to one of a predefined set of classes?

• A) Classification
• B) Estimation
• C) Affinity grouping
• D) Clustering

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Definitions:

Synapomorphies

Shared derived characters or traits that are used to determine evolutionary relationships among organisms.

Exoskeletons

External skeletons that support and protect an organism's body, found in arthropods like insects, crabs, and lobsters.

Marsupial Colonization

The process by which marsupials, a group of mammals typically characterized by premature birth and continued development in the mother's pouch, spread and establish populations in new areas.

Vicariant Events

Geological occurrences that physically separate organisms, leading to speciation by dividing ancestral populations into two or more reproductively isolated groups.