Multiple Choice
The difference(s) between the traditional and cladistic classification of chordates and their extant sister groups is a difference in
A) the addition of new and comparative rRNA and DNA molecular sequence data.
B) fossil evidence that clearly shows that the traditional classification is simply wrong.
C) the insistence in traditional systematics that all taxa be paraphyletic.
D) the insistence in cladistics that all taxa be monophyletic.
E) all of the choices are points of argument.
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