Process of Evolution Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• phylon: this means tribe
• genesis: this means origin
• phylogeny: the evolutionary history of a group of organisms
• genealogy: an organism’s line of evolutionary development in phylogenetic trees
• phylogenetic tree: diagrams that trace evolutionary relationships and connections among organism
• root: indicates that an ancestral lineage gave rise to all organisms on the tree
• polytomy: branch with more than two lineages
• sister taxa: point of two lineages stem from the same branch
• basal taxon: lineage that evolved early from the root and remains unbranched
• branch point: the point where split occurs
• clade: this is a monophyletic group
• paraphyletic: a group of organisms with similar characteristics and originated from one recent common ancestor,but shows different characteristics from the other descendants of the recent ancestor.
• polyphyletic: organisms that originated from the same ancient ancestors but not related at all in terms of their most recent ancestors
• soft polytomy:indicates more than two immediate descendants