Figure 24.3 -Answer the Question Using the Accompanying Figure. in the Figure

question 69

Multiple Choice

Figure 24.3
-Answer the question using the accompanying figure. In the figure, letter B represents a ____ taxon, which includes ____.

• A) monophyletic; an ancestral species and all of its descendants
• B) polyphyletic; species from different evolutionary lineages
• C) polyphyletic; an ancestral species and all of its descendants
• D) paraphyletic; species from different evolutionary lineages
• E) paraphyletic; an ancestral species and only some of its descendants

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