Why is it so difficult to determine the phylogenetic relationships of turtles to other sauropsids?
What will be an ideal response?
Most of the derived anatomical characters of turtles are autapomorphies—that is, derived characters that are unique to the turtle lineage rather than shared with other lineages. But phylogenies are built on synapomorphies (shared derived characters), and turtles offer very few of those. It remains to be seen whether molecular characters will be more helpful than anatomical characters have been in determining the phylogenetic relationships of turtles.
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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
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