Multiple Choice
When you look at a phylogenetic tree of reptile classes, turtles, lizards and snake, and crocodiles are grouped together and birds are set off to the side but with a common ancestor for both groups. This would
A) be a monophyletic tree.
B) be a paraphyletic tree.
C) be a polyphyletic tree.
D) have the taxonomy wrong because birds should be included with the others to make it a monophyletic tree.
E) be a paraphyletic tree but the taxonomy wrong, because birds should be included with the others to make it a monophyletic tree.
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