Compare these 15 types of plants to each other. Which are, in your opinion, more

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Compare these 15 types of plants to each other. Which are, in your opinion, more similar to each other and which are less similar? Why? Try to think about whether these similarities are required for function or if they are similar for another reason that isn’t apparent to you.

. Does it make sense to you? In other words, are plants that you thought might be closely related actually closely related?

On your scrap piece of paper that you attached to the PDF file, list some relationships that surprised you. If you can’t find any, list some that you predicted. But seriously, did you really predict kiwis are more closely related to celery and carrots than to strawberries?

Celery Carrot Kiwi Soybean Parsley .935 Potato Tomato 0.875 0.52 -Apricot -Birch G.885 0,525 Apple 00.795 7Raspberrv Strawberry Raspberry 0.80B Cherry Peach 0873 0.2

Explanation / Answer

This phylogenetic tree is right. The basis of making phylogentic tree is cansensus sequences of different living entities. therefore this picture shows clear view of their closness. They are similar by their sequences and by function or appearnace. Moreover Carrot and Celery velong to apiaceae family and Kiwi too belong to same apiaces family. They are evolutionaory more closer than Strawberry which belongs to family Rosaceae. The red highlihgted values are bootstrap values, which means more the values more will be similarity. In addition Carrot and Celery belong to same clade and Kiwi is sharing next clade from them having 93.5% similarity.

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