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Paralogous genes, or paralogs, are:

The E-value of a particular sequence identified by a BLAST search is:

Which of the following tree displays shows topology and branch lengths, but branch lengths are not adjusted to absolute time?

The Linnaean system of Latin binomial nomenclature is most similar to which English parts of speech?

Taxonomic ranks are important in all of the following nomenclatural systems EXCEPT for:

You are a college professor running a systematics lab.  Your grad student found a paper in the literature reporting the phylogeny of her favorite group of organisms, based on gene A.  To verify the published phylogeny, she sequences gene B and gets a slightly different phylogeny.  What are four possible explanations for the difference between her result and the published one?

Ultra-conserved-elements (UCES) which are found across many taxa can be used to develop baits for which sequencing approach?

Which of the following is not a useful method to find genes in a sequence of base pairs?

In terms of our classification scheme for life on earth, if you use a phylogeny to name a new genus from some subset of a larger group of species, in what ways is your decision arbitrary and in what ways is it based on something ‘real’?

Explain how geographical distributions provide evidence for common ancestry rather than independent origin of species (demonstrate with an example as needed).