EBK CAMPBELL BIOLOGY IN FOCUS
EBK CAMPBELL BIOLOGY IN FOCUS
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Author: Reece
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 27, Problem 8TYU

FOCUS ON EVOLUTION

In Figure 27.29, circle the smallest monophyletic group that includes dinosaurs. Explain your answer and list the taxa that are in this clade. Knowing that birds are endothermic and crocodiles are ectothermic, can you use phylogenetic bracketing (see Concept 20.3) to predict whether dinosaurs other than birds are ectothermic or endothermic? Explain.

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