Question

The grouping that includes turtles, lizards and snakes, crocodiles and alligators, birds, and bats is: _____.

Answer 1

Option(B) monophyletic is the right answer.

The grouping that includes turtles, lizards and snakes, crocodiles and alligators, birds, and bats is monophyletic.

What is monophyletic?

• A monophyletic taxon is a collection of organisms that includes both the most recent common ancestor of all the creatures in the group as well as all of their offspring.
• Another name for a monophyletic taxon is a clade.
• Angiosperms, mammals, birds, insects, etc. are few examples.

How are monophyletic groups recognized?

• A group of species that is monophyletic comprises all of its progeny as well as the common ancestor they all share.
• A monophyletic group on a phylogenetic tree consists of a node and all of its offspring, represented by both nodes and terminal taxa.

What distinguishes a group from a paraphyletic group or a polyphyletic group?

• Monophyletic: All of the ancestor's offspring are included in the monophyletic group.
• Paraphyletic: The paraphyletic group does not include all of the ancestor's offspring.
• Polyphyletic: The members of a polyphyletic group do not all descend from the same ancestor.
• Monophyletic A common ancestor exists in monophyletic groups.

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