How are cladograms used to organize organisms?

A) A cladogram is a chart that shows the effect of fruit eating on diet.
B) A cladogram is a diagram that shows how parents transmit heritable factors to offspring.
C) A cladogram is a chart that displays groups of related organisms.
D) A cladogram is a graph that displays the relationship between brain size and body size.

Cladograms

Diagrams used in cladistics which show relationships among species based on shared, derived characteristics, illustrating how they diverged from a common ancestor.

Organize Organisms

The process of classifying or arranging organisms into groups based on certain criteria or relationships.

Related Organisms

Related organisms share a common ancestry and exhibit similarities in their genetic makeup, physical traits, or both.