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8. VISUALIZE Draw a simple cladogram illustrating the evolutionary relationships among extant mammals (marsupials, eutherians, and monotremes). Include the following characters in your cladogram: well-developed placenta, vivipary, endothermy, marsupium, hair.
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Ch. 32.1 - Prob. 1LOCh. 32.1 - Prob. 1CCh. 32.2 - Identify three shared derived characters of...Ch. 32.2 - Prob. 1CCh. 32.2 - Prob. 2CCh. 32.3 - Describe characteristics of chordates, including...Ch. 32.3 - What are four shared derived characters of...Ch. 32.3 - Prob. 2CCh. 32.3 - Prob. 3CCh. 32.4 - Prob. 4LO
Ch. 32.4 - Prob. 1CCh. 32.4 - If you found a small fishlike animal along the...Ch. 32.5 - Prob. 5LOCh. 32.5 - Prob. 6LOCh. 32.5 - Prob. 1CCh. 32.5 - Prob. 2CCh. 32.6 - Prob. 7LOCh. 32.6 - Prob. 1CCh. 32.7 - Prob. 8LOCh. 32.7 - Prob. 1CCh. 32.7 - Prob. 2CCh. 32.8 - Describe three vertebrate adaptations to...Ch. 32.8 - Prob. 10LOCh. 32.8 - Prob. 11LOCh. 32.8 - Prob. 1CCh. 32.8 - Prob. 2CCh. 32.8 - Prob. 3CCh. 32.8 - Prob. 4CCh. 32 - Test Your Understanding 1.Which of the following...Ch. 32 - Test Your Understanding 2.Which of the following...Ch. 32 - Test Your Understanding 3.A shark is characterized...Ch. 32 - Test Your Understanding 4.Which of the following...Ch. 32 - Test Your Understanding 5.Reptiles (a) are all...Ch. 32 - Test Your Understanding 6.Which of the following...Ch. 32 - Test Your Understanding 7.Which of the following...Ch. 32 - Test Your Understanding 8.VISUALIZE Draw a simple...Ch. 32 - Test Your Understanding 9.EVOLUTION LINK Sea...Ch. 32 - Test Your Understanding 10.EVOLUTION LINK Most...Ch. 32 - Test Your Understanding 11.EVOLUTION LINK Discuss...Ch. 32 - Prob. 12TYUCh. 32 - Prob. 13TYU
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