Biology: The Dynamic Science (MindTap Course List)
Biology: The Dynamic Science (MindTap Course List)
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ISBN: 9781305389892
Author: Peter J. Russell, Paul E. Hertz, Beverly McMillan
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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The systematists utilize the homologous characters for their phylogenetic analysis.

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Organisms that share similar features, their genome tend to be more closely related than the organisms having dissimilar characters. There are some organisms having similar features but do not share the same evolutionary relationship. The phenotypic similarities that are involved independently in different lineages are called homoplasy or analogy.

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