If you were using cladistics to build a phylogenetic tree of cats...

Question

If you were using cladistics to build a phylogenetic tree of cats, which of the following would be the best outgroup?
a. wolf
b. domestic cat
c. lion
d. leopard

Accepted Answer

Hello, everyone here. We have a question that says, if we construct a pillow genetic tree for dogs, determine which of the following animals will be the ideal out group. So what is an out group? Out groups are organisms that are very distantly related. So we want the ones the one that is the most distantly related. So we have a coyote, v, an arctic fox, See an Alaskan malamute or the Persian cat. So an Alaskan malamute is a type of dog, so it would not be C. And a coyote is a direct ancestor of a dog, be an arctic fox or D. A. Persian cat. An arctic fox is going to be more closely related than a Persian cat. So our answer here is going to be d Persian cat. Thank you for watching. Bye.

Watch next