Figure 24.1 Answer the Question Using the Accompanying Figure. in the Figure

Multiple Choice

  
Figure 24.1
Answer the question using the accompanying figure. In the figure, letter A represents a ____ taxon, which includes ____.

A) polyphyletic; species from different evolutionary lineages
B) polyphyletic; an ancestral species and all of its descendants
C) paraphyletic; an ancestral species and only some of its descendants
D) monophyletic; species from different evolutionary lineages
E) monophyletic; an ancestral species and all of its descendants