Question

It is possible, if not likely, that early during the history of life on Earth, diversification did not adhere to the standard bifurcating process depicted by most phylogenetic trees.

True False

Answer 1

Since, the life evolved on earth 3.5–4.0 billion years ago, the life has diversified according to Darwinian sense. The theory of evolution prosed by Darwinian suggests that all modern organisms share a common ancestor, known as the last universal common ancestor (LUCA). Throughout evolutionary history, this ancestor has produced descendants as successive bifurcations in a tree-like manner. This is known as 'tree of Life'. This branch of science is called phylogenetics useful to explore molecular evolution of organisms known as systematics. Therefore, the given statement is 'false'.