In the absence of evidence from fossils, systematists frequently use a technique called ____ to identify ancestral and

derived character states.



a. outgroup comparison
b. ingroup analysis
c. gel electrophoresis
d. microarray analysis
e. homology comparison


ANSWER: a

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