Asked by jay

ike is studying the phylogenetic tree for big cats.
A big cat phylogenetic tree is shown. A bracket goes to clouded leopard and to another bracket. That bracket goes to 2 additional brackets. One bracket goes to tiger and snow leopard. The other bracket goes to janguar and another bracket. The other bracket has lion and leopard.

He made several statements about the tree. Which statement is not true?
The leopard is more closely related to the jaguar than to the snow leopard.
The leopard is more closely related to the tiger than to the clouded leopard.
The leopard is more closely related to the snow leopard than to the clouded leopard.
The leopard is more closely related to the tiger than to the snow leopard.

All Answers 1

Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
The fourth statement is not true.

Reason: Leopard and tiger share the same most recent common ancestor as leopard and snow leopard (they're in different sister clades that join at the same node), so the leopard is equally related to the tiger and the snow leopard — it is not more closely related to the tiger.