A Phylogenetic Tree

question 11

Multiple Choice

A phylogenetic tree

• A) indicates common ancestors.
• B) indicates the organism's taxon.
• C) uses only derived characters.
• D) indicates common ancestors for each family.
• E) includes the organism's order and class. A phylogenetic tree indicates both an organism's ancestors and its lines of descent. It does not directly indicate the taxon of an organism.

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Definitions:

SML

The Security Market Line, a representation in the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) that shows the expected return of a security or portfolio as a function of its systematic risk.

Expected Return

The anticipated amount of profit or loss an investment generates over a given period of time.

Standard Deviation

A statistical measure of the dispersion or variability in a set of data, often used in finance to quantify the risk associated with a security or investment portfolio.

Coefficient Of Variation

A standardized measure of the dispersion of a probability distribution or frequency distribution, used to assess risk relative to expected returns.