You are a college professor running a systematics lab. Your…
You are a college professor running a systematics lab. Your grad student found a paper in the literature reporting the phylogeny of her favorite group of organisms, based on gene A. To verify the published phylogeny, she sequences gene B and gets a slightly different phylogeny. What are four possible explanations for the difference between her result and the published one?
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In a monophyletic genus of 10 species of birds, four have evolved red-colored beaks while the other six have black-colored beaks. If red beaks evolved independently for each species of the four species, what is the Consistency Index for this trait?
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