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OpenStudy (anonymous):

Can someone help me form a cladogram?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

@Abhisar Hey man could you help me please?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Organize your five animals by their evolutionary relationships with one another. This information can be accessed in a web search about your animal

OpenStudy (anonymous):

I know it looks something like this |dw:1408849212644:dw| But I don't know what else to do or what animals i might be able to do

OpenStudy (abhisar):

First select an animal

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Can it be any animal?

OpenStudy (abhisar):

yes

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Cat, does it have to be a specific cat?

OpenStudy (abhisar):

no..it's ok..now the second step would be finding its evolutionary heirarchy

OpenStudy (abhisar):

ok....actually there is a change ! The question wants you to select any five animals and then represent them on the cladogram according to their evolutionary trend. So we will have to select 5 animals.

OpenStudy (abhisar):

For the sake of simplicity let the five animals be cat, fish, crocodile, bird, human

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Alright sounds good

OpenStudy (abhisar):

|dw:1408849893580:dw|

OpenStudy (abhisar):

So basically in the cladogram we put more advanced organisms at the top of the primitive organisms

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Could I also draw it like this? |dw:1408850088426:dw|

OpenStudy (abhisar):

Yes you can write it at the base as well...but this is how it's drawn mostly http://prntscr.com/4fuu3d

OpenStudy (anonymous):

So a cat is smarter than a bird? Ect?

OpenStudy (abhisar):

yes !

OpenStudy (anonymous):

How can we tell a bird is smarter than a croc?

OpenStudy (abhisar):

Smarter is not the correct term. Basically cladogram represents the evolutionary timeline. Birds evolved later than reptiles, that's why we can say birds are smarter than croc

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