{"id":2859,"date":"2016-06-13T18:35:40","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T18:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/biologyxwaymakerxmaster\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=2859"},"modified":"2017-08-02T16:58:07","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T16:58:07","slug":"outcome-phylogenetic-trees","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/hccs-waymakerbiology1\/chapter\/outcome-phylogenetic-trees\/","title":{"raw":"Introduction to Phylogenetic Trees","rendered":"Introduction to Phylogenetic Trees"},"content":{"raw":"<h2>What you'll learn to do: Read and analyze a phylogenetic tree that documents evolutionary relationships<\/h2>\r\nIn scientific terms, the evolutionary history and relationship of an organism or group of organisms is called phylogeny. <strong>Phylogeny<\/strong> describes the relationships of an organism, such as from which organisms it is thought to have evolved, to which species it is most closely related, and so forth. 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Phylogenetic relationships provide information on shared ancestry but not necessarily on how organisms are similar or different.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-2859\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Original<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li><strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Shelli Carter and Lumen Learning. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Lumen Learning. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Shared previously<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Biology. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: OpenStax CNX. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/cnx.org\/contents\/185cbf87-c72e-48f5-b51e-f14f21b5eabd@10.8\">http:\/\/cnx.org\/contents\/185cbf87-c72e-48f5-b51e-f14f21b5eabd@10.8<\/a>. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em>. <strong>License Terms<\/strong>: Download for free at http:\/\/cnx.org\/contents\/185cbf87-c72e-48f5-b51e-f14f21b5eabd@10.8<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":17,"menu_order":14,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"original\",\"description\":\"\",\"author\":\"Shelli Carter and Lumen Learning\",\"organization\":\"Lumen Learning\",\"url\":\"\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"},{\"type\":\"cc\",\"description\":\"Biology\",\"author\":\"\",\"organization\":\"OpenStax CNX\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/cnx.org\/contents\/185cbf87-c72e-48f5-b51e-f14f21b5eabd@10.8\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"Download for free at http:\/\/cnx.org\/contents\/185cbf87-c72e-48f5-b51e-f14f21b5eabd@10.8\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"b96e6f17-1939-4618-a34a-88b4d9441125","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-2859","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":337,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/hccs-waymakerbiology1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/hccs-waymakerbiology1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/hccs-waymakerbiology1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/hccs-waymakerbiology1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/hccs-waymakerbiology1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5360,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/hccs-waymakerbiology1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2859\/revisions\/5360"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/hccs-waymakerbiology1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/337"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/hccs-waymakerbiology1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2859\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/hccs-waymakerbiology1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/hccs-waymakerbiology1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=2859"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/hccs-waymakerbiology1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=2859"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/hccs-waymakerbiology1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=2859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}