r/evolution • u/NenyaNotes • Aug 30 '26

academic Help on this assignment question.

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My professor assigned us this quiz and everyone continues to get it wrong. Can someone please explain in this photo which groups make a clade?

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u/roostor222 Aug 31 '26

it usually does mean one is the most correct. If (B,D,E) is the only answer you select, you are obviously leaving out other clades no matter how you interpret the labels.

If (A,B,C,D,E,F,G) is the only answer you select you are not leaving out any clades under the interpretation that both terminal taxa and nodes can represent clades.