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In cladistics, biologists attempt to place species into groups that each include an ancestral species and all of its descendants. A group that is paraphyletic fails to accomplish this goal in what way?.

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The  group that is paraphyletic fails to accomplish this goal consists of an ancestral species and some, but not all, of its descendants.

What is cladistics?

  • Cladistics is a typical method of hypothesizing relationships among organisms.
  • The basic idea behind cladistics is that members of a particular group share a common evolutionary history.
  • They are "closely related," more to members of the same group than to other organisms.
  • These groups shares unique features which were absent in distant ancestors. These shared derived characteristics are called synapomorphies.

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