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What does cladistic analysis compare

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Cladistic analysis compares the shared and shared derived characteristics of organisms which are thought to be of same ancestral origin.

Step-by-step explanation:

  • The branch of sytematics concerned with inferring phylogeny is termed as cladistics.
  • It determines the branching pattern of evolution.
  • It decribes the sequence of branching of ancestral lines.
  • The basic idea behind cladistics is that the members of a group share common evolutionary history, and are closely related, more so to members of the same group than to other organisms.

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