Assuming chimps and gorillas are closest relatives to humans

Assuming chimps and gorillas are closest relatives to humans, removing humans from the great ape clade and placing them in a different clade has the effect of making the phylogenetic tree of the great apes polyphyletic. paraphylctic. monophyletic. aphyletic

Solution

Answer: B. paraphyletic

Reason:

A common typical feature shared by all of the organisms in a particular clade from monophyly to paraphyletic often referred as \"synapomorphies\". Clades are possessed by a particular organism and associated its descendents. For example, Humans, chimps and gorillas are under same clade known as great ape in which isolating human species & placing them in a different clade meticuliusly exert its effects on synaptomorphies & it s making a \"paraphyletic\" tree of the great apes. Synapomorphies are traits considerably crucial and shared by a collection of organisms in a biome. These Synapomorphies enable in constructing a good phylogenetic cladogram either monophyletic or paraphyletic as a Synapomorphies are mentioned under the organism name in a particular cladogram in order to represent potentially all of the above species sharing a common trait.