Question

John wants to show the evolutionary relationship between a lion and a cat and group them based on their similarities and a common ancestor. Which of these is the best and simplest method to represent this information?

Cladistic analysis
Taxonomy
Tree of Life

Answer 1

The correct answer would be Cladistic analysis

Cladistics is one of the approaches used in biological classification in which organisms are grouped on the basis of recent common ancestors.

The original methods were derived from the work of Willi Hennig who used the term phylogenetic systematic in his book.

Similarly, John wants to show the evolutionary relationship between a cat and a lion on the basis of their similarities as well as common ancestors. Thus, he is trying to cladistic analysis between cat and lion.

Answer 2

John wants to show the evolutionary relationship between a lion and a cat and group them based on their similarities and a common ancestor. The best and simplest method to represent this information is cladistic analysis. The answer is the first choice.