Biology 2010 Student Edition

Published by Prentice Hall
ISBN 10: 9780133669510
ISBN 13: 978-0-13366-951-0

Chapter 18, Classification - Assessment - 18.3 Building the Tree of Life - Understand Key Concepts/Think Critically - Page 534: 32

Answer

The problem with putting all "protists" in one clade is that they are only distantly related to one another. In fact, some members of "Protista" are more related to other kingdoms than they are to one another. Modern analysis has identified at least five separate clades of "protists" that only have a distant relationship with one another.

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The problem with putting all "protists" in one clade is that they are only distantly related to one another. In fact, some members of "Protista" are more related to other kingdoms than they are to one another. Modern analysis has identified at least five separate clades of "protists" that only have a distant relationship with one another.
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