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17.2 Classification Based on Evolutionary Relationships
Modern classification is based on evolutionary relationships.
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| phylogeny | evolutionary history of a group of related species |
| cladistics | method of organizing species by evolutionary relationships in which species are grouped according to the order that they diverged from their ancestral line |
| cladogram | diagram that displays proposed evolutionary relationships among a group of species |
| derived character | trait that differs in structure or function from that found in the ancestral line for a group of species; used in constructing cladograms |
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