Cladistics
Cladistics: Overview
This Topic covers sub-topics such as Inherited Traits, Cladogram, Cladistics, Cytochrome C, FASTA Format and, Carl Woese Three Domain System of Classification
Important Questions on Cladistics
In the light of recent classification of living organisms into three domains of life (bacteria, archaea and eukarya), which one of the following statements is true about archaea?
Which of these traits is acquired by a human population in response to the environment?
Humans are closely related to mice and are most distantly related to Neurospora.
Which of the following uses the BLAST and FASTA program?
How can you say that a cladogram of cytochrome C in different animals can help in finding their evolutionary relations?
FASTA is an excellent tool for determining similarity of sequences.
Changes in the non – reproductive tissues caused by environmental factors
Which chromosome set is found in male grasshopper?
A branching diagram that represents the proposed phylogeny or evolutionary history of a species or group
On the basis of rRNA genes, bacteria are divided into:
Assertion (A): The six kingdom classification proposed by Carl Woese included Bacteria, Archaebacteria, Protista, Fungi, Plantae and Animalia.
Reason (R): Carl Woese divided six kingdoms into domains using
Which famous scientist provided the rules for the inheritance of traits?
When the two alleles of a given gene are expressed at different levels in a given cell, it is called as:
