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    A Taxon That Includes All the Descendants of an Ancestor
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A Taxon That Includes All the Descendants of an Ancestor

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Question 50

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A taxon that includes all the descendants of an ancestor is called:


A) paraphyletic.
B) homophyletic.
C) monophyletic.
D) phenetic.
E) polyphyletic.

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