Question

who is closely related to who

• phylogeny - evolutionary history of a shared derived characteristic
• the evolutionary history of a group of organisms
• represented by a diagram called a phylogenetic tree
• nodes - common ancestors
• the highest category in modern classification is the domain
• bases on ribosomal rna sequence

three domains:

• bacteria
• archaea
• eukarya

value: 7
using the diagram above, the archaean are more closely related to _.
○ a. bacteria
○ b. eukarya
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Explanation:

In a phylogenetic tree, the closer the common ancestor (node), the more closely related the groups. Archaea and Eukarya share a more recent common ancestor (the upper - node) compared to Archaea and Bacteria (the lower - node).

Answer:

B. Eukarya