Question 17. Is a group containing only grass and Formica a monophyletic group? What taxa would need to be included in order to make this group monophyletic?
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A monophyletic group, or clade, includes an ancestor and all of its descendants. This means that for a group to be monophyletic, it must contain all the taxa that share a common ancestor. Show more…
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