Phylogenetic Trees

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Across
  1. 1. Line representing population through time
  2. 5. Taxon that diverged prior the taxa being focused on
  3. 6. Endpoint of a branch
  4. 8. Most ancestral branch in the tree
  5. 9. Trait that existed in an ancestor
  6. 11. Represents the most recent common ancestor
  7. 12. Node that depicts an ancestral branch dividing into 2-3 branches
  8. 13. Similarity in organisms due to common ancestry
  9. 14. Group that does not include most recent common ancestor
  10. 15. Tree Graphical summary of history of organisms
  11. 16. Modified form of ancestral trait, found in descendant
Down
  1. 2. Similarity in organisms due to reasons OTHER than common ancestry
  2. 3. Trait found in two or more taxa, present their most recent common ancestor, but absent from distant ancestors
  3. 4. Group includes ancestral pop and all descendants, but no others
  4. 6. of Life Most universal phylogenetic tree
  5. 7. Evolutionary history of a group of organisms
  6. 10. Group that includes ancestral pop and some descendants, but not all.