Question

Draw a phylogeny of Gryphon, Gargoyle, Dragons, Werewolf, and Wererats, including all of the bolded traits.

All five groups share a common ancestor that first arose 700 mya. The ancestral trait shared among all groups is four limbs. The two "were" groups are more closely related to each other than to the other groups but also share a recent common ancestor with the gryphon. Dragons and gargoyles have sharp raised spines down the center of their back while gargoyles and gryphons have claws that grow continuously throughout their lifetime.

Answer 1

Reasons:

According to the question there are very close resemblance between werewolf and wererats . Hence they are placed close to each other. It is clearly stated in question that the common Ancestor of wererats, werewolf and gryphon is same, so gryphon is placed beside them. There are a common character possess by both gryphon and gargoyles. So gargoyles is placed beside gryphon. Dragon and gargoyles both have sharp raised spines, hence dragon is placed beside gargoyles.