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3 weeks Life come from clay and not from DNA & RNA
CLADISTIC SYSTEM
“klados” (ancient greek) – “branch”
Cladistics – classification of organisms based on
their phylogenetic (evolutionary) relationship and
recency of antiquity of common ancestor, rather
than on their observable similarities
Cladistics or phylogenic classification if based on
phylogeny of the involved organisms and depends
on the phylogenetic branching
According to it organisms are placed into
taxonomic groups called Clades
Based on the possession of synapomorphic
characters
Organisms are classified based on the historical
order of their evolutionary descent
Does not consider the phenotypic differences
between the descendants of a common ancestor
Cladistics taxonomy upholds the monophyletic
origin of different groups from a common
ancestor through Cladogenesis
HISTORY
The original methods used in cladistics analysis
and the school of taxonomy derived from the
work of the German entomologist Willi Hennig,
who referred to it as phylogenetic systematics
Father of Cladistics – Willi Hennig
What is now called the cladistic method appeared
as early as 1901 with a work by Peter Chalmers
Mitchell for birds and subsequently by Robert
John Tillyard (for insects) in 1921
The terms “clade” was introduces in 1958 by
Julian Huxley
Cladistic analysis by Willi Hennig is to determine
which character states are primitive and which
are derived based on common ancestry