Part B: The Cladogram Organize your five animals by their evolutionary relationships with one another. This information can be accessed in a web search about your animal. (Hint: Review evolutionary relationships, ancestral traits, and derived traits from the lesson.) There is no wrong way to make a cladogram. As long as you can justify species location on the cladogram, your chart will be correct. Your cladogram does not have to match the student example. Remember, no matter what the relationship is between the groups depicted in a cladogram, there will always be one less clade
Than the number of groups
what are your animals?
Which did you pick Birds or Insects?
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Just and FYI everyone, the question ask for you to organize five animals by their evolutionary relationships. This means that it not a cladogram. The correct term for the tree that the question wants you to build is phylogram (phylogeny)
I did the same assignment ( I picked the insects) and put them in a cladogram. So which part do you not understand?
Also, the question has another issues that I just realized after rereading. It says "there is no wrong way to make a cladogram." Well, that is not true. The goal of a cladogram is to make a clade, that is to say a monophyletic group. Para/polyphylies are not proper. Also, since this question is actually asking for a phylogram, if you are so negligent that you don't bother to even come close the the evolutionary history of the group, you did do it wrong. That is the goal of a phylogeny, so I am sure you can see how ignoring that would be "wrong".
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