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Common Ancestry

AP Biology

Common Ancestry

Universal features of life

Phylogenetic trees

Components of a phylogenetic tree

How to read phylogenetic trees

Constructing phylogenetic trees

Morphological data

Molecular data

Cladistics

Molecular evidence for the three domains

Horizontal gene transfer

Endosymbiotic theory

Divergent vs. convergent evolution

Molecular clocks and divergence timing

Vocabulary