Question

Can someone please help me in making a cladogram?

raw a traditional cladograms, writing the animal (A, B, etc) on the appropriate spot. This is based on derived characteristics, with the most derived on the right side and most ancestral on the left. There's a section from a lab book on Inside BC that will help to understand cladograms. Traits limbs 4 limbs no limbs 4 limbs 4 limbs 4 limbs 4 limbs Reproduction bony protrusions porous eggs porous eggs hard shelled eggs bony jaw 4 molars soft- leather shelled egg mammary mammary secretions glands bony jaw bony jaw 4 molars 4 molars 5 digits 5 digits tail Reproduction mammary glands jaw bony jaw Molars 3 molars Digits 5 digits tail tail Fur fur Brain right/left hemispheres brains talk 4 molars mammary glands bony jaw 3 molars 2 digits bony jaw 4 molars 5 digits tail tail tail tail small tail no fur fur no fur fur right/left brains don't talk no fur right/left brains don't talk right/left brains don't talk right/left brains talk right/left brains don't talk right/left brains talk

Answer 1

As the mammlian characters are considered to be the most derived the reference was taken such and E is considered to be the most derived and C the most ancestral as depicted below:

CLADOGRAM Based on the data givers, the cladogram way be constructed as depicted below E Most derived Ancestral