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How is it that morphological data alone might lead scientists to group animals into erroneous evolutionary relationships?
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Morphological data refers to the physical characteristics of organisms such as color, body shape, and size. This was the primary method used to group animals before the advent of genetic trees which use DNA and common ancestors. Show more…
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