Phylogeny is an estimated representation of an organism’s or group of organisms’ evolutionary history. Scientist use a phylogenetic tree to visualize ancestor descent relationship through time. The closer together different taxa are represented in a phylogenetic tree the more closely related the species are to each other. Phylogenetic tree is consists of different types of characteristics which makes it easier for scientists to understand them. Phylogenetic is important because it enriches our understanding of how genes, genomes, species (and molecular sequences more generally) evolve. Phylogeny is a useful tool for taxonomists because it can be used to investigate evolutionary development. Taxonomy led to the study of phylogeny through the framework of dividing organisms into a hierarchy of taxonomic categories such as family, genus and species.

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