7.7

Common Ancestry

AP Biology

Common Ancestry

Universal features of life

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Phylogenetic trees

Components of a phylogenetic tree

How to read phylogenetic trees

Constructing phylogenetic trees

Morphological data

Molecular data

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Cladistics

Molecular evidence for the three domains

Horizontal gene transfer

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Endosymbiotic theory

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Divergent vs. convergent evolution

Molecular clocks and divergence timing

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Vocabulary