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

____.



a. polyphyletic; an ancestral species and all of its descendants
b. monophyletic; an ancestral species and all of its descendants
c. monophyletic; species from different evolutionary lineages
d. paraphyletic; an ancestral species and only some of its descendants
e. polyphyletic; an ancestral species an only some of its descendants


ANSWER: d

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