If you pass, you can move into a more appropriate course. I also urge those who want to get a sense of what the course final is like to take the exam. The only requirement is that you need to sign up in advance. You will be told the location when you sign up. Bring your photo ID to the exam itself.
Biologists use a variety of experimental methods to discover phylogenetic relationships.
Because no form of evidence can give us a complete picture and because there are no time machines, our ideas of evolutionary history and relatedness are subject to revision as new data come in. This whole field of biology is referred to as systematics. Following prevalent 18th century European religion beliefs and lacking any information about the age of the earth, he believed that all organisms ever created were present on the modern earth and that the job of the biologist was discovery, taxonomy, and classification. Phylogenetic reconstruction is a later idea in biology. In effect, Linnaeus created a database, although this is not a term he would have used.