BIOLOGY 1108 ACTUAL TEST PAPER 2026 QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+

BIOLOGY 1108 ACTUAL TEST PAPER 2026
QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+

●● Phylogeny.
Answer: Evolutionary History of species or group of related species


●● Systematics.
Answer: Classifies organisms and determines their evolutionary
relationships


●● Branch Point.
Answer: Represents the divergence of two evolutionary lineages from a
common ancestor


●● Sister Taxa.
Answer: Groups that share an immediate common ancestor that is not
shared by any other group


●● What do phylogenetic trees NOT show?.
Answer: Phenotypic similarity, indications of when a species evolved, or
how much change occurred in a lineage


●● Where are phylogenies inferred from?.

, Answer: Morphological and Molecular data


●● Systematists.
Answer: Gather information about the morphologies, genes, and
biochemistry of living organisms


●● Homologies.
Answer: Phenotypic and genetic similarities due to shared ancestry


●● Analogy.
Answer: Similarity due to convergent evolution


●● Clade.
Answer: Group of all species that includes an ancestral species and all
its descendants


●● Paraphyletic.
Answer: Grouping consists of an ancestral species and some, but not all,
descendants


●● Monophyletic.
Answer: Consists of ancestor species and all its descendants