How Are Cladograms Used to Organize Organisms

question 135

Multiple Choice

How are cladograms used to organize organisms?

• A)A cladogram is a chart that shows the effect of fruit eating on diet.
• B)A cladogram is a diagram that shows how parents transmit heritable factors to offspring.
• C)A cladogram is a chart that displays groups of related organisms.
• D)A cladogram is a graph that displays the relationship between brain size and body size.

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Definitions:

Short-Run Cost Function

A representation of how total production costs change with output levels in the short term, when some factors are fixed.

Quasi-Fixed Costs

Costs that are not directly variable with the level of output but can change over time with scale of operations, such as salaries for permanent staff.

Positive Output

Production of goods or services in a quantity that exceeds zero.

Short-Run Cost Function

A mathematical relation describing how production costs change with output levels over a short period, where some inputs are fixed.