1)Ignoring Tarentola, Lygodactylus, and Phelsuma as outgroups How would could yo

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1)Ignoring Tarentola, Lygodactylus, and Phelsuma as outgroups How would could you classify the remaining species and genera into families?

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r Tarentola mauritanica Lygodactylus bradfieldi Phelsuma serraticauda Gehyra australis 98/1.0 Gehyra mutilata Hemidactylus bowningii Cyrtodactylus annulatus 26/0. 0/0.9 Cyrtodactylus philippinicus Pseudogekko smaragdinus 00/1.0 Pseudogekko compressicorpus Lepidodactylus herrei 0.99 00y 1.0 Lepidodactylus moestus 96/1.0 67/0 S7 Lupe rosaurusjoloensis Luperosaurus cuming 66/0.98 Luperosaurus angliit 100710 Luperosaurus sp 98/1.0 r Luperosaurus sp 8110. TL Luperosaurus macgregor Luperosaurus gulat 67/05 Gekko athymus Gekko crombota 85/0.9 Gekko romblon B5/0.97 Gekko mindorensis 99/1.0 Gekko monarchus Gekko gecko 00/1.0 L Gecko smith 92/0,70 r Gekko chinensis 0,99 Gekko japonicu 50/0.53 Gekko auriverrucosus 74/099 Gekko swinhonis Gekko subpalmatus 99/1.0 Gekko hokouensis Ptychazoon lionotum 0.96 Ptychozoon kuhli Gekko petricolus 87/ Gekko baden 90W0,9 Gekko grossmanni 82/1.0 Luperosaurus an 95/1.0 Gekko vittatus 00/10 vittatus Gekko 0.2 Pseudogekko smaragdinus Lepidodactylus herrei Luperosaurus cumingii Luperosaurus macgregori Gekko mindorensis Gekko gecko Ptychozoon rhacophorus n kuh Luperosaurus iskandari Gekko vittatus

Explanation / Answer

Answer) The solution is very simple if you can understand the question.

Here, we have a phylogenetics tree and the different species are arranged in terms of their evolutionary relationships. here, we can see that Tarentola, Lygodactylus, and Phelsuma are outgroups because they have isolated from all the species very early during the course of evolution. also, they don't have any descendants.

now, all the other species are the descendants of some or the other ancestor ( a key point for the answer) and we can arrange them in different families where the species in a given family are descended from a common recent ancestor.

Also, we see that we are provided with the small numbered boxes, where they represent them as a common ancestor for different species of lizard.

hence, Family 1 = Luperosaurus cumingi, Luperosaurus macgregori (see the phylogenetic tree above, where 1 represents the ancestor for species Luperosaurus cumingi, Luperosaurus macgregori ).

similarly, Family 2 = Pseudogecko smaragdinus, lapidodactylus herrei. (descendants from ancestor 2).

Family 3 = Gekko mindorensis, Gekko gekko, Ptychozoon rhacophorus, Ptychozoon kuhli, Luperosaurus iskandari, Gekko vitatus (descendants from ancestor 3)

Family 4 = Ptychozoon rhacophorus, Ptychozoon kuhli, (descendants from ancestor 6)

Family 5 = Luperosaurus iskandari, Gekko vitatus (descendants from ancestor 8)

Note - Only the species represented in the diagram are classified into families based on their common ancestors. similarly, all the others species in the tree can be arranged in different Superfamilies, families, and subfamilies if it is asked to you.

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