Which of the following terms best describes the place in an

Which of the following terms best describes the place in an evolutionary tree that represents a currently living population? A. Counting the number of nodes between the groups of interest B. Counting the number of other groups between the groups of interest C. Looking at the first (earliest) common ancestor of the two groups D. Looking at the last (most recent) common ancestor of the two groups

Solution

Which of the following terms best describes the place in an evolutionary tree that represents a currently living population?

Looking at the last (most recent) common ancestor of the two groups.----ANSWER

explanation

Cladogram : it can be referred as a branching diagram depicting the cladistic relationship between a number of species in evolution