Life: The Science of Biology
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Author: David E. Sadava, David M. Hillis, H. Craig Heller, Sally D. Hacker
Publisher: W. H. Freeman
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The biological processes, which are represented, in a phylogenetic tree.
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All the life present on the earth is known to be the part of a single phylogenetic tree and this indicates that there was one common ancestry. The study of biological species and their entities is known as phylogeny.
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