cladistics
IPA: kɫædʌstɪks
noun
- (systematics) An approach to biological systematics in which organisms are grouped based upon synapomorphies (shared derived characteristics) only, and not upon symplesiomorphies (shared ancestral characteristics).
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Examples of "cladistics" in Sentences
- Evolutionary taxonomy and cladistics.
- Cladistics as a successor to phenetics.
- The best known form of this is cladistics.
- Indo european and computational cladistics.
- Cladistics is a methodology, not a taxonomy.
- Morphological cladistics of the Nepenthales.
- Instead, they prefer to focus on cladistics.
- The clade is the topic of interest to cladistics.
- Cladistics and family level classification of the Gentianales.