A taxon that includes a single common ancestor and all its descendants is a _____ group

A. monophyletic
B. paraphyletic
C. polyphyletic


A

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a. after a fire b. on a new sand dune c. on bare rock d. immediately after the formation of a man-made lake e. on a newly-formed volcanic island

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for the wide range of diversity found in RNA viruses?

a. DNA polymerase b. RNA polymerase c. reverse transcriptase d. protease e. ligase

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What type of bond links two polynucleotide chains to each other in a double helix DNA?

A.) glycosidic bond B.) hydrogen C.) phosphodiester D.) phosphoanhydride E.) disulfide

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