Important Questions on Taxonomy and Systematic Botany
What is the significance of a common ancestor in cladistics? 
What is the role of outgroups in cladistics? 
Why are synapomorphies important in cladistics? 
What is the primary focus of cladistics in taxonomy? 
How does cladistics classify homologous traits? 
What does a branch point in a cladogram represent? 
What are shared derived characters in cladistics? 
A branching diagram that represents the proposed phylogeny or evolutionary history of a species or group 
How does homoplasy affect cladistics? 
How do molecular data improve cladistic analysis? 
How does cladistics handle ancestral traits? 
What is the difference between monophyletic and paraphyletic groups? 
What is the principle of parsimony in cladistics? 
What does a clade represent in a cladogram? 
Why are analogous traits not used in cladistics? 
What is a polytomy in a cladogram? 
Cotyledons are also called- 
How is a cladogram different from a phylogenetic tree? 
How are paraphyletic groups treated in cladistics? 
What is the main limitation of cladistics? 