Question

What is a cladistics?

Answer 1

Cladistics:

1. Cladistics is a system of taxonomy in which the organisms are classified into clades (groups) based on collective characteristics and having common ancestry.
2. Cladistics is used for classifying organisms and establishing evolutionary relationships between them.
3. The methodology used in cladistics involves genetic, molecular, and anatomical quantity of organisms.
4. Cladistics data is used to create cladogram that contains diagrams proposing hypothesis of phylogenetic relationship.