Invert Zoolology
Across
- 2. The simplest explanation of observed data is the preferred explanation
- 5. Derived character
- 7. Used to designate closest relative
- 10. Any group of species that we designate
- 12. Animal that neither possess nor develop a vertebral column, derived from the notochord
- 14. Derived character unique to a single taxon
- 15. A trait found in a descendent that differs from the ancestral trait
Down
- 1. Shared ancestral character
- 3. Derived traits that are shared among a group and are viewed as evidence of the common ancestry of the group
- 4. The field devoted to the classification of organisms
- 6. A taxon that consists of all the descendants of a common ancestor.
- 8. The branch of biology that investigates relationships among species to
- 9. A trait that was present in the ancestor of a group
- 11. The study of the evolutionary history of species
- 13. the history of life