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Readings:
Chapter 28 in Campbell
Mayr, E. 1982. Grouping according to common ancestry, pp. 209-250 in "The Growth of Biological Thought". Belknap/Harvard Univ. Press. Cambridge, MA
Wainright, P. O., G. Hinkle, M. L. Sogin and S. K. Stickel. 1993. Monophyletic origins of the Metazoa: An evolutionary link with the Fungi. Science 260: 340-342.
Questions:
List and define 5 terms from these articles with which you were initially unfamiliar.
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What are the 3 major groups of Fungi and how are they different from each other?
What are the three commonly used modern methods of determining phylogeny (evolutionary relationships of organisms)? Which would you say was most closely followed in the paper on the origin of the Metazoa (multicellular animals)?
What are the strengths and weakness of the arguments made by the authors of the last paper, as you see them?