Cladistics is the placing of the organisms in clades or groups which includes a common ancestor. True true False false Single Orgainsms share characteristics that are common with that ancestor (shared ancestral character) while evolving new characters that differ from the ancestors True true False false Single Organisms that share homologies tend to be more closely-related evolutionarily compared to those organisms that do not. True true False false Single Divergent evolution occurs when organisms are exposed to very similar environmental and natural selection pressures, resulting in analogous morphological adaptations True false False true Single Sequence alignment is a bioinformatics methodology that compares at least two sequences – DNA, RNA, or protein – by searching for series of characters/bases that are in the same order in the sequence. True true False false Single Homologous genes form when a new species evolve and diverge from an ancestral species. True false False true Single Many DNA biomarkers, such as the cytochrome c gene (codes for a protein in mitochondria) are orthologous between different animal species. True true False false Single The ancestral gene diverges as well, resulting in the ancestral gene being found to be slightly different in the two resulting species. True true False false Single One thing that could complicate the comparison of molecular similarities is called molecular homoplasy. True true False false Single Molecular homoplasy occurs in organisms that are distantly-related but somehow have a lot of common characteristics in their DNA sequences. True true False false Single