Cladistic terms 2
Across
- 1. name for tree diagram on which branch lengths are shown in propotion to the inferred number of evolutionary changes [9]
- 6. study group whose phylogeny is being assessed [7]
- 8. two groups or terminal that together form a monophyletic group, i.e., form the two branches from a dichotomous node on a phylogenetic tree [6,6]
- 9. criterion used in cladistic analyses for identifying preferred hypotheses of relationships [9]
- 14. character with only two states [6]
- 15. method of determining the polarity of character states in a dataset [8,10]
- 16. group on a phylogenetic tree that shares a unique common ancestor [12]
- 17. type of cladistic tree search that estimates the lengths of all possible trees for a set of taxa [10]
- 18. group on a phylogentic tree including some but not all descendants of an inferred ancestor [12]
- 19. character type with more than two states [10]
Down
- 2. similarity due to independent evolutionary change; this can be through convergence/parallel evolution (= analogy), or reversal (= loss) [9]
- 3. a monophyletic group [5]
- 4. adjective describing primitive or ancestral character state [13]
- 5. derived character state unique to one terminal taxon in a phylogenetic analysis [12]
- 7. branch-point on a tree/cladogram [4]
- 10. A measure of the parsimony fit of a character to a tree, or of the average fit of all characters to a tree [11,5]
- 11. shared, derived character state [12]
- 12. type of cladistic tree search typically used for larger datasets [9]
- 13. character with multiple states, between which all transitions are given the same cost when calculating tree length [9]
- 18. branch-point in a tree at which more than two branches are joined [8]