Option(B) <u>monophyletic</u> is the right answer.
The grouping that includes turtles, lizards and snakes, crocodiles and alligators, birds, and bats is <u>monophyletic</u>.
<h3>What is monophyletic?</h3>
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.
<h3>How are monophyletic groups recognized?</h3>
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.
<h3>What distinguishes a group from a paraphyletic group or a polyphyletic group?</h3>
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.
