The Topics of Focus,within Systematics,address the

question 2

Multiple Choice

The topics of focus,within systematics,address the

• A) processes of reproductive isolation that can isolate species populations.
• B) science of describing, naming, and classifying organisms.
• C) biogeography and distributions of species that have diverged.
• D) two main areas of describing and classifying organisms, and studying their evolutionary relationships.
• E) studies of similarities and evolutionary relationships among species.

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Definitions:

Randomized Block Design

Randomized block design is a statistical experiment design that aims to reduce variation by grouping similar experimental units into blocks before randomly assigning treatments within blocks.

Total SS

The total sum of squares, a measure of the total variation in a dataset.

SST

Sum of Squares Total (SST) refers to the total variance in a set of observations, measuring the overall deviation of individual cases from the mean.

SSB

Sum of Squares Between groups; a measure used in statistical analysis to quantify variations among group means.